Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Camerari, 1480-1490: 1490.
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Type:Institutional account book
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: D.E. McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: 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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning', unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, n. 253 (previously in L. Fumi, 'il Duomo di Orvieto', 1891, p.397 and in F. Canuti, “Il Perugino”, Siena, 1931, vol.2, p. 140).
Notes: Fumi (1891, p.397) and Canuti (1931, p.140) date the document to 1489.

Perugino had promised to paint the San Brizio chapel in Orvieto and is reached in Fano by a letter from the Opera del Duomo calling him to come and negotiate with them.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 27.5.1490
Valentino de Gaychis, pro eius mercede eundi ad civitatem Fani pro M. Petro Perusino pictore, qui promisit pingere Cappellam Novam,libras decem denariorum .lib. 10.