Location: Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526, fols. 341r-342r.
Type:Institutional record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Dugald McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: Partially published by L. Fumi, Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Rome, 1891, p. 406, doc. CLIV; new transcription by 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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, no. 351 (and partially published by Andreani 1996, doc. 217, pp. 433-34).

The soprastanti of the Opera del Duomo, Orvieto agree to find another artist to paint the Cappella Nova unless Perugino responds favourably to a letter from the Opera.

Artist(s): Luca Signorelli, Pietro Perugino
Dates: 8.3.1499
Dictum super 3a. de cappella nova Item continuando dictum suum prefatus Johannes Lodovicus super 3a. proposita, de perficiendo cappellam novam, dixit et consuluit quod sequatur et finiatur dicta cappella nova, et quod scribatur dicto magistro Petro perusino si vult venire et facere prout promisit in instrumento locationis sibi facte; et habita responsione dictarum litterarum a dicto magistro Petro, si noluerit venire quod mittatur et queratur, expensis dicte fabrice, pro meliore et peritiore magistro quam reperiatur et eidem locetur iterum dicta cappella nova quod quidem dictum vive vocis omnium consensu et partito sollemniter misso obtemptum fuit per quatrenos quinque del sic, nullo reperto del non ... Actum in Urbeveteri in camera nove dicte fabrice solita residentia dicti camerarii presentibus magistro Antonio Clarelle et Antonio Cecchi Tosi de Urbeveteri, testibus etc.