Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526: 1498
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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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992,n. 344 (previously partially edited in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri', Roma, 1891, pp.405-406 and in F. Canuti, 'Il Perugino', Siena, 1931, p.143)

The Soprastanti del Duomo di Orvieto have written to Perugino and receive a response from him favourable to recommencing negotiations over the paintings for the Cathedral, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 21.6.1498
Die 21 iunii 1498 Congregatis et choadunatis dictis superstitibus in dicta audientia ad requisitionem dicti camerarii coram quibus facte infrascripte preposite videlicet [. . .] Secundo quod magister Petrus de Castro Plebis cui alias fuit locata cappella nova a superstitibus dicte eclesie scripsit quod si vult sibi provederi de honesto pretio ofert se accersurum ad perficiendum picture laborerium etc. [. . .] Item super secunda preposita quod mictatur expensis fabrice pro dicto magistro Petro de denariis intelligendum quomodo et qualiter de pretio velit tractare dictam fabricam de dicto laborerio fiendo etc. [. . .]