Location: Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526, fols. 363v-364r.
Type:Institutional record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Dugald McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: Partially published by L. Fumi, Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Rome, 1891, p. 408, doc. CLVIIX and R. Vischer, Luca Signorelli und die Italianische Renaissance, eine Kunsthistorische Monographie, Leipzig, 1879, pp. 349; new transcription by D.E. McLellan, Luca Signorelli’s Last Judgement Fresco Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, no. 359 (and partially published by Andreani 1996, doc. 224, p. 435).

Luca Signorelli asks for payment for vault of the Cappella Nuova in Orvieto.

Artist(s): Luca Signorelli
Dates: 6.1.1500
In nomine Domini amen. Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo indictione tertia tempore pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Alexandri divina providentia pape sexti, die vero sexta mensis Ianuarii. [In margin:] Congregatio superstitum Convocatis, congregatis et cohadunatis infrascriptis superstantibus dicte fabrice in supradicta camera nova solita residentia dicti camerarii ipsius fabrice, de mandato et commissione dicti Placidi Oddi camerarii per Dominicum Nicolai Catalutii et Dominicum Pier Johannis, famulos dicte fabrice pro infrascriptis negociis peragendis pro evidenti utilitate dicte fabrice: Iohanne Lodovico Nalli Beneincasa ) Butio Iacobi ) Iohanne Barnabei et ) Pacifico Octaviani ) superstitibus una cum spectabili viro Placido Oddi camerario ipsius fabrice, coram quibus supradictus camerarius fecit infrascriptas propositas ad presens incumbentes et necessarias in dicta fabrica videlicet: [In margin:] Prima proposita Quod, cum magister Lucas de Cortona pictor cappelle nove ecclesie Sancte Marie maioris de Urbeveteri pinxerit et ad huc pingat dictam cappellam novam iuxta tamen tenorem conventionis facte in dicta locatione, et in presentiarum videat sibi magis dictum laborerium esse dannosum, quam lucrosum et utile; idcirco benigne supplicat dictus magister Lucas consuli et provideri sue indempnitati, super quo tamen petitur utile consilium.