Pinacoteca

Detached fresco (14th century)

This fresco of the Crucifixion, which is now on the wall at the entrance to the Pinacoteca, is from the nunnery of Santa Croce (see the Trevi walk).  It is attributed to the Maestro del Crocifisso di Trevi and depicts the Crucifixion, with the Madonna and Child on the left and the Annunciation on the right.

Triptych (early 15th century)

 
 

Detail: Crucifixion
The triptych, which is attributed to Giovanni di Corraduccio, called Mazzaforte, came from Santa Croce (see the Trevi walk).  It comprises numerous scenes from the life of Christ, with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Annunciation in the top register.  SS Agnes, Emilianus, Jerome and John the Baptist are on the reverse of the folding wings.  An inscription commemorates the donors, Cicco Urighi and Jacobuccio di Mattia.

The Commune blocked the attempted sale of the triptych in 1839, and it was moved to the Pinacoteca in 1867.







Panels from a Polyptych (ca. 1430)

 

 

Detail: Flight into Egypt

These four panels, which are attributed to Giovanni di Corraduccio, called Mazzaforte, came from San Francesco.  They depict scenes from the life of Christ.   A number of scenes (eg. the Crucifixion) are missing, suggesting that there was originally a fifth, central panel.  The surviving panels were moved to the Pinacoteca in 1867.










Madonna and Child (late 15th century)

This panel has been recently attributed to Bernardino di Benedetto di Biagio, called Pintoricchio following its recent restoration.





SS Cecilia and Catherine (ca. 1520)

These panels, which are attributed to Giovanni di Pietro, called Lo Spagna,  came from the Cappella di Santa Caterina in the Madonna delle Lacrime.  They were removed in 1741, when the chapel was rededicated to St Alfonso. 

Coronation of the Virgin (1522)

The Observant Franciscans of San Martino commissioned this altarpiece from Giovanni di Pietro, called Lo Spagna for the high altar of their church.  It is an almost exact copy of Lo Spagna's fresco on the same subject at Santa Maria di Montesanto, Todi. 

  • In the upper part, Christ crowns the Virgin to the accompaniment of musical angels. 

  • The scene is witnessed from below by: 

    • SS Mary Magdalene, Bonaventure, John the Baptist and Jerome on the right;

    • SS Martin, Francis and Bernardino at the centre, SS Augustine, Louis of Toulouse and Catherine of Alexandria on the left;

    • and a number of Franciscan saints behind. 

The surviving predella panels depict: 

  • St Martin and the beggar; and

  • the stigmatisation of St Francis. 

The central predella panel, which depicts the Pietà, is now in the Univesity of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

Pietà (early 16th century)

Pope Clement VII gave this altarpiece to Benedetto Valenti, his procurator fiscal, in Rome in 1531.  It had apparently been confiscated from a man who had been executed for murder.  Valenti installed it on the altar of his family chapel (the Cappella della Resurrezione) in the church of the Madonna delle Lacrime.  


Madonna of the Rosary (16th century)

This panel formed the lower part of a huge altarpiece that Muzio Petroni commissioned for an altar in Sant' Emiliano that belonged to the Compagnia del Rosario. It entered the civic collection in 1878.

Assumption of the Virgin and Saints (ca. 1640)

This altarpiece was painted in Rome by Vincenzo Turchi, called l’ Orbetto for the high altar of  Sant' Antonio Abate (see Detour II).  It has been recently restored.


Miracle of St Vincent Ferrar (ca. 1729)

This altarpiece seems to have been commissioned for a new altar dedicated to St Vincent Ferrar in San Domenico (see the Trevi walk).  It entered the civic collection in 1994.

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