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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning', unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, doc.236 (previously partially published in F. Canuti, “Il Perugino”, Siena, 1931, vol.2, p.137 and in L. Fumi, 'Il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
[…] Item dixit quod esset bonum complere picturas cappelle nove […] Deliberatio super pictura cappelle nove Item deliberaverunt et voluerunt similiter viva voce et misso partito ad fabas quod camerarius ipse possit et valeat compleri pingi facere cappellam novam per aliquem bonum ydoneum et sufficientem magistrum nemine eorum discrepante