Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526 (1489)
Type:Institutional record
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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning', unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, doc.236 (previously partially published in F. Canuti, “Il Perugino”, Siena, 1931, vol.2, p.137 and in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Roma, 1891, 397, XCVIII)

The Soprastanti of the Duomo of Orvieto decide to commision the altarpiece of the Marriage of the Virgin, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 19.11.1489
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