Description of arts and Crafts in the Trasimeno Lake area.

1. In the centre of Italy…, there is a jewel…:
The Lake Trasimeno

2. Eight towns surround the Lake itself…,
…some on panoramic hilltops…
Paciano
Panicale
Piegaro
Citta’ della Pieve

3. …and others right on the shore…
Magione Tuoro sul Trasimeno
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago

4. In the Trasimeno area worked great artists: the most famous
of whom is Pietro Vannucci, know as “Il Perugino” (1450-
1523).
Frequently the painter represented the lake
on his panitings and frescos…
Pietro Vannucci
Adoration of the Magi (1504) - Citta’ della
Pieve

5. Giovan Battista Caporali (1496-1560) is an other important artist
– architect and painter – in the Lake Trasimeno area. Many of his
works can be seen in:
Paciano Panicale
Santissimo Salvatore
Annunciation
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Giovan Battista Caporali was also
the architect of the cathedral in
Panicale.
The Coronation of Mary

6. The name of Niccolo’ Circignani (1516-1598), known as “il
Pomarancio”, is also closely associated with the Trasimeno
area.
Almost all of the churches in Citta’ della Pieve are graced by one
or more of his works and the Palazzo Ducale della Corgna in
Castiglione del Lago was decorated mostly by him with
mythological themes.
Frescos
Palazzo della Corgna
Castiglione del Lago

7. Another illustrious painter is Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini,
known as Masolino da Panicale (Panicale 1383 – Florence
1440). He was considered the maestro of Masaccio, and
worked between the gothic tradition and the Renaissance
culture using the new rules of perspective. Masolino’s
painting are in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, and he is
famous also for the decorations of the Brancacci Chapel in
the Carmine church in Pisa.
Frescos of Paintings
Brancacci Chapel

8. While the previous artists were exponents of classic harmonious
art, Gerardo Dottori (1884-1977) was one of the greats of the
Futurist school of art, the man who invented “aeropainting”. He
was fond of painting mystical landscapes, many of which
featured Lake Trasimeno and the Umbrian countryside. Many
works of Dottori are around the Trasimeno area. There are
frescoes and canvas dedicated to Friar Giovanni da Pian di
Carpine in the meeting hall of Magione’s Municipal building.
There are frescoes in the churches in Magione and in Tuoro at
the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena.
Frescos…

9. …Paintings…

10. ….and Aereopaintings…

11. In the Trasimeno area there are also many great craftsmen.
Those from Piegaro are skilled in working with glass, an
activity begun there in the 13th century by Venetian masters.
A request for mosaics of the Duomo in Orvieto in the early
1300s, launched the activity on an industrial scale, with the
highest of quality and coloured glass. Products from
Piegaro are made for windows of cathedrals of Perugia,
Milan and Bologna.
Artifacts
Duomo di Orvieto