Location: Perugia, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio notarile, Protocolli 735, (1512)
  • 658
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Type:Notarial
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by W. Bombe, “Raffaello nel'Umbria”, in “Rassegna d’Arte Umbra”, I, 1909-10, p. 117; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 162-64.
Notes: The document appears on the following folios: 658r-v.

In the contract with Perugino for the 'Assumption of the Virgin' a request is made for the same quality of pigment and gold used in the altarpiece for Alessandra degli Oddi, Raphael's 'Coronation of the Virgin'.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 18.12.1512
Eodem millesimo [1512], die [18 Dicembre] et loco [Perugia], praesentibus etc. dominus Antonius Christofori Ciaci de castro Curciani agri Perusini ecclesie Sancte Marie dicti castri rector et procurator [et] Lucas Matthei Baroni de dicto castro eiusdem ecclesie [. ..] dederunt et locaverunt ad pingendum spectabili viro magistro Petro Christofori civi Perusino oriundo de castro Plebis confinibus agro Perusino pictori egregio, presenti, stipulanti et acceptanti pro se et suis heredibus, unam tabulam in ecclesia Sancte Marie predicte dicti castri collocandam de cuius qualitate [et] magnitudine ipse magister Petrus dixit habere plenam notitiam [et] informationem. [...] In qua quidem tabula debeat pingi inmago gloriose Virginis Marie in celum ascendentis cum duodecim appostolis et angelis et aliis que in simili actu ascensionis beate Virginis requiruntur, uti ipsa artis tabule capacitas exigit et requirit. Circum et intus ornamenta, frigiis, festiis aureis prout opus fuerit ad usum boni loyalis magistri, prout ipse magister Petrus habetur [et] reputatur etc., cum auro et coloribus finibus et bonis prout tabula magnifice Alexandre Simonis de Oddis que est in ecclesia Sancti Francisci de Perusia porte Sancte Susane et melioribus [...].