Oratorio di Sant' Agostino

(16th century)


The Oratorio di Sant’ Agostino, which is to the right of Sant' Agostino, housed the Confraternita di Sant’ Agostino, a penitent lay organisation that was formed in 1317.  It is named in the city statutes of 1320 along with the Confraternita di San Domenico and the Confraternita di San Francesco.  It is likely that all three were offshoots of the original flagellant confraternity of Perugia, the Confraternita di Gesù Cristo Crocifisso.   They were closely associated and adopted common constitutions, which were reformed in 1520.  They were however separately administered and each had its own oratory.  They all later became part of the Pio Sodalizio di Braccio Fortebracci.  

The oratory, [which is in restoration]. has a small Renaissance portal.  The interior comprises:

  • a small entrance hall;

  • the chapel, which was re-modelled in the Baroque style in the late 17th century; and

  • the sacristy (1762), built by Pietro Carattoli.

The hospice (early 14th century) that the confraternity administered survives beneath the oratory, with its entrance in its right wall.

Crucifixion (early 16th century)

[More on this fresco on what was the altar wall, which was rediscovered in 1991 and initially attributed to Raphael.  It is now attributed to followers of Perugino.  It is related to an altarpece (1510) of the madonna and Child with saints by Berto di Giovanni and Sinibaldo Ibi that was removed from the chapel in the 17th century (see below).]

Madonna and Child with saints (1563)

This panel by Raffaellino del Colle of the Madonna and Child with [which saints ?] forms the altarpiece of the chapel.

Madonna and Child with saints (1625)

This processional banner by Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia of the Madonna and Child with SS Augustine, Francis and Dominic now forms the altarpiece of the altar in the sacristy.

Works of Art Removed from the Oratory

Gonfalone di Sant'Agostino (1499)

The Confraternita di Sant’ Agostino commissioned this silk banner from Pinturicchio.  It depicts St Augustine enthroned with three kneeling figures of members of the flagellant confraternity.

The banner later passed into the ownership of Silvestro Friggeri Boldrini, and he donated it to the Accademia di Belle Arte in 1868.  It is now in the Galleria Nazionale (Room 24).

Madonna and Child enthroned with saints (1510)

The confraternity commissioned this altarpiece, which is dated by inscription, from Berto di Giovanni and Sinibaldo Ibi.  It was moved to the sacristy, possibly when the oratory was remodelled in the 17th century.  The confraternity gave it to the Galleria Nazionale in 1872 and it is now in the deposit there.

Theological Virtues (ca. 1600)

These four panels from the oratory by Simeone Ciburri depict Faith, Hope and two figures of Charity.  They are now in the Galleria Nazionale (Room 34).

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