Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526: 1493
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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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992,n. 287 (previously partially edited in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri', Roma, 1891, p.402 and in F. Canuti, 'Il Perugino', Siena, 1931, p.142)

The Soprastanti of the Opera del Duomo, having lost their trust in Perugino and tired of waiting, withdraw the 10 ducats that they had deposited for the artist and abandon the idea of having the chapel of San Brizio painted by him, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 28.3.1493
Die 28 martii 1493 Refutatio Crisostimi pictoris de deposito magistri Petri. Cum hoc sit quod Crisostimus Fiani de Urbeveteri esset depositarius de decem ducatis ad rationem decem carlenorum pro ducato fabrice sancte Marie de Urbeveteri vigore contractus depositi facti pro quoddam magistro Petro pictore de Castro Plebis prout apparet instrumentum manu ser Vintentii Octaviani publici notarii Urbisveteris in presenti libro actorum fabrice quod vidi et legi tempore Victorii Benedicti tunc camerarii ditte fabrice Et cum ipse Crisostimus satisfecerit in quadam promissione facta cum presentia et consensu dicti camerarii prout aparet(sic) manu mei notarii ideo dittus Ypolitus camerarius nomine ditte fabrice volens uti veritatem fuit confessus et contentus habuisse et recepisse dittos decem ducatos ad dittam rationem ab eodem Crisostimo et vocavit se bene quietum contentum et satisfactum nomine ditte fabrice de quibus ipse camerarius quo supra nomine fecit eidem Crisostimo finem et generalem refutationem quietationem et pactum perpetuum de ulterius aliquid non petendo etc. sub pena et obligatione dupli etc. renumptians etc. iurans etc. Actum in audentia nova ditte fabrice presentibus Gasparre Dominici de Bononia et magistro Antonio de Bresello fabro habitatori in Urbeveteri testibus ad hec vocatis etc