The artworks in the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria are displayed on the upper floors of the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia, Italy. Its collection is one of the most exhaustive and complete in the Region for the multiplicity and variety of its are works, which cover a period from the 13C to the 19C. Some of the artists included are Master of San Francesco, Armolfo di Cambio, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Gentile de Fabriano, Fra’ Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, piero della Francesca, Agostino de Duccio and Grancesco di Giogio Martini. In addition, there are many works by Perugino, Pintoricchio, Orazio Gentileschi, Pietro da Cortona, Valentin de Boulogne, Sebastiano Conca, Pierre Subleyras and Jean Baptiste Wicar. Many of the paintings were by artists were born in the city of Perugia. The collection primarily is primarily makes up of religious paintings on the running up, during and after the Age of Renaissance. The majority of the works stilted toward the Renaissance from the end of 13C though to the early 15C. Many of these exhibits are diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs. These are the kind of paintings that the ordinary Italian of the time were likely to encountered, in their daily life.

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Madonna & Child. C1496-98
by Pinturicchio.
Refine, emotional,
decorative, elegance.

2. The collection housed in the
Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia. The
bulk of the collection was amassed
from churches, convents and
oratorios during the Napoleon
occupation. It was in 1863 when
the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
was founded. Its collection covers
a period from the 13C to 19C,
shadowing the development of
paintings, in its neighbour,
Tuscany.
The gallery

3. Master of San Francesco c1260
The Maestro of the Franciscan Crucifixes had
developed his distinctive style of an arching iconic
Christ.
Umbria is adjacent to Tuscany, where the
Renaissance city states of Florence and Siena
were situated. Inevitably the development of arts
in Umbria tracked those in Tuscany.
The painting collection in Perugia is particularly
rich, in the period of art running up to the
Renaissance.

4. Master of San Francesco c1260

5. Master of Perugia c1270

6. Maestro Farneto c1290
In the late 13C, we saw the transformation of medieval Gothic art into the early Renaissance art. At
the same time the Roman Catholic church saw the rise of the Franciscans and the Dominicans
orders. It was a period when the professional painters immerged. Many paintings for this time
were created by very skilful master craftsmen, whose names were unknown to us, like the Maestro
of San Francisco, Maestro Franeto. Maestro of Perugia. We have very little knowledge of them
apart from their works.

7. Marino di Elemosie c1309
“At the centre the Madonna is shown holding the Child
as he attempts to walk on his Mother’s lap, in a form of
13C iconography derived from the art of France but
which became widespread in Umbria in a more playful
and informal version.” At this time local artistic styles
began to develop.

8. Mio di Siena c1315
The work was created by
the arrival of a ‘foreign’’
master craftsman from
Siena, who had a notable
influence on Perugian
paintings.

9. Bartolo di Fredi 1364
Bartolo di Fredi (documented 1353
-1397) is another Sienese., with bold
simplicitys of natural appearances,
harshness of colour and increased
emotionalism.

10. Master of the Dormition of Terni 1380
We know very little about the artist. He arrived in south
Umbria between 1370 and 1415. The speculation is
that he may have been Domenico da Miranda from
Rome..

11. Ottaviano Nelli 1403

12. Taddeo di Bartolo 1403.

13. Bicci di Lorenzo 1420
Bicci di Lorenzo (1373-1452) was
a Florentine. He was the son of
the painter Lorenzo di Bicci.
Painters were skill craftsmen
specialised in painting religious
altarpieces. The skills of the trade
was passed through generations
of the family.

14. Domenico di Bartolo 1438
Domenico di Bartolo
(1400/04 – 1445/47)
was an Italian painter of
the Sienese School.

15. Giovanni Boccati 1448
Giovanni Boccati (c1420 – after 1480) was born in
the region of Marche and became a citizen of
Perugia. His style suggests the influences of
painters such as Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi and
Domenico Veneziano.

16. Benedetto Bonfigli 1454

17. Piero della Francesca 1467
Piero della Francesca (c1415/20-1492) was a
well-known early Renaissance painter and also
mathematician. His painting are generally light
and interest in perspective. His greatest work is
the True Cross fresco in the Basilica of San
Francesco in Arezzo.

18. Sante di Apollonio 1478
Sante di Apollonio very little is known about him
apart form his works.

19. Bartolomeo Caporali 1477
Bartolomeo Caporali was born in
Perugia (c1420-1503/05). His style was
influence by Umbrian artists Gozzoli and
Boccati. He in turn influenced artists like
Perugino, and Fiorenzo di Lorenzo.

20. Bartolomeo Caporali 1475
This painting was recently catalogue
under Bartolomeo Caporali (c1420-
1503/05)..Stylistically it is so different
from the previous painting which is also
attributed to Bartolomeo Caporali.

21. Pinturicchio 1496
Pinturicchio’s formal name was Bernardino di Betto
(1454-1513). He born in Perugia, was a native of
Umbria. He was also a miniaturist. He like using gold
lead and lavish expensive pigments. Several of his
frescos can be found in S Maria del Popolo in Rome.

22. Pinturicchio 1496
Pinturicchio’s was a prolific artist, praised by the
Borgia family and the papal court for two century.
Today he was relegated. This painting has typical
signs of his unmistakable style with remarkable
details of description and deep emotional intensity
and the graceful elegance of a decorative friezes.

23. Perugino 1475
Vannucci Pietro detto Il Perugino (c1446/1452 –
1523) was a well-known painter of High
Renaissance. More simply known as Pietro
Perugino. Raphael was his most famous pupil. He
was also a native of Umbria.
Self-portrait 1497-1500

24. Perugino 1496

25. Perugino 1496
Perugino’s style was often gently pious, gracefully posed
and clearly positioned figures set against sunlit
landscapes, perhaps inspired by Netherlandish art.

26. Perugino 1500
Perugino’s Madonna often dressed in red with a blue
skirt.

27. Perugino 1500

28. Perugino 1517
Christ Giving the Keys to St Peter. 1481-82. Sistine
Chapel, Vatican. This is
This is Perugino most famous painting. It is in the Sistine
Chapel, Vatican, Rome.

29. Caporali 1500
Born in Perugia, Giovanni Battista Caporali (c1476-
1560) was the son of Bartolommeo Caporali. He
was a pupil of Perugino.

30. Bernardino di Mariotto 1500
Born and trained in Perugia, Bernardino di
Mariotto (c1478-1566). He was also a
native of Umbria.

31. Berto di Giovanni 1500
Berto di Giovanni (1488-1529).
was a native painter of Umbria.

32. Berto di Giovanni 1517

33. Eusebio da San Giorgia 1505
Born in Perugia Eusebio da San
Giorgio (c1470-c1550). was a native
painter of Umbria. He was a pupil of
Pietro Perugino as well.

34. Giannicola di Paolo 1506

35. Alfani 1516
Born in Perugia, Domenico Alfani
(c1479/80-c1553) studied under Pietro
Perugino. He was also a close friend
of Raphael. His style was also very
close to Raphael. As time progress, he
changed his style.

36. Alfani 1518

37. Alfani 1544

38. Dono Doni 1561
Born in Assisi, Dono Doni (1505-1575) said to
be a disciple of Pietro Perugino. However, we
do know was an assistant to Giovanni di Pietro.
The painter did not portrait the birth of Jesus in
a manger as in the Bible but in a room full of
attendants.

39. Fiammingo 1564
Arrigo Fiammingo (c1530-1597) also known as
Hendrick van den Broeck was a Flemish
painter. However, he was active mainly in Italy.
He is known as a sculptor as well as a painter
and worked in Napes, Florence, Umbria and
Rome.

40. Mancini 1568
Tiles produced by Mancini
workshop in Deruta.

41. Marcello Venusti 1573
An Italian Mannerist painter, Marcello Venusti
(1512/5-1579) was active in Rome. He was the
painter who painted a copy of Michelangelo’s Last
Judgement.

42. Ciburri 1590s
This is one of the four panels painted made up
of Faith, Hope and two versions of Charity. In
this version Simone Ciburri depicted Charity
feeding a suckling child for the first time.
Simone Ciburri (active 1591-1624) was an early
Baroque period. Born in Perugia where he
painted in the style of Ferderico Barocci.

43. Orazio Gentileschi c1600

44. Valentin de Boulogne 1620
Valentin de Boulogne (c1591-1632) was a
French painter. He left France in 1620 for Italy.
He was a follower of Caravaggio. His style
shows in the subtleness of psychological
expression and interplay among his characters,
as well as in the refinement and finesse of his
painting techniques.

45. Cortona 1643
Pietro da Boulogne (1596-1669) was an
architect, painter, decorator and designer of
sculptural monuments. Together with Bernini
and the architect Borromini, they were the
exponent of Roman High Baroque.

46. Cortona 1645

47. Sacchi 1651
PieAndrea Sacchi (1599-1661) was a Roman
painter. He studied under Albani in Rome and
Carracci in Bologna. He painted major
altarpieces in Rome. He evolved the sober,
introspective classicism style, often with warm
range of colours.

48. Cerrini c1660

49. Scaramuccia c1665
Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616-1680) was a
pupil of Guido Reni. Born in Perugia to a
painter’s (Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia)
family, he travelled throughout Italy.

50. Amorosi c1690
Antonio Amorosi (1600-1738) was active in
Rome, painted genre scenes.

51. Trevisani c1700
Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746) was born in
Slovenia, then part of the Republic of Venice.
He then studied in Venice and moved to Rome,
where remained until his death. His brother
Angelo Trevisani was aa prominent painter in
Venice.

52. Conca 1741

53. Wicar 1809
Maria Annunziata Carolina Murat (1782-1839),
a French female painter, daughter of
Napoleon’s sister.

54. Rossi c1860
Perugian artist Giuseppe Rossi (1820-1899) stand out for his interest in series of scenography and landscape painter.
Unfortunately only a few of his paintings survived.

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