Location: Perugia, Monastero di Sant'Erminio
Sub-Location: Memoriale di Monteluce
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Type:Institutional record
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by Anon. “Unsigned letter from Lodovico Bianconi in Perugia to Abate Carlo Bianconi in Rome”, in “Antologia romana” III, 1776, pp. 56-57; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 794-96.

From the records of Santa Maria di Monteluce we learn that the Coronation of the Virgin was brought to Perugia from Rome.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 2.6.1525
Item, nel predicto millesimo [1525], a dì doi di giungnio, l’ultimo anno dello offitio della madre sora Veronica, fu portata la cona nostra da Roma, essendo fornita de pengere. La quale per molti anni innanti la bona memoria della reverenda madre sora Baptista haveva data commissione fusse facta e penta per lo altare della chiesia de fore, come appare al presente.