Luca Signorelli "de wit et pilgrim spirit" as he called the father of Raffaello, Giovanni Santi.
The exhibition is dedicated to Luca Signorelli (Cortona 1450-1523), one of the most important artists of the Renaissance, long active in Central Italy from 1472 to 1519, which was not dedicated a solo exhibition since 1953.
It will consist of three venues: the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, Orvieto in the Cathedral, the Museum of the Opera and the Church of Holy Apostles, in Citta di Castello in the Municipal Gallery.
The headquarters of the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia will be shown the entire career of Luca Signorelli, with the exception of a few paintings of his maturity when presented in Città di Castello, where it will build a reflection on his artistic legacy.
The list of works, drawn from a broad scientific committee composed of some of the most influential scholars of the Italian Renaissance, gives an account of the ambition of the project, whose purpose is to document the learning experiences and dialogues with some woven by Luca Signorelli among the most gifted artists of his time frequented by youth (Verrocchio, Pollaiolo, the Flemish), who enriched his initial impression from Piero della Francesca, to participate in the largest shipyard in the late fifteenth century Italian decorative, the one of the Sistine Chapel, where Signorelli was able to deal with artists such as Perugino, Pinturicchio, Bartolomeo della Gatta, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. It will be exhibited in the Gallery the altarpiece of S. Onofrio, preserved in the Capitular Museum of San Lorenzo of Perugia, Luca Signorelli, who resigned over the chapel of St. Onofrio in 1484, a work that constitutes a cornerstone of the early work and documenting the quality of the relationship joined the artist Jacopo Vagnucci the bishop of Perugia, who was also a native of Cortona.
The show will know the cultural vitality of Signorelli, careful interpreter of the classical tradition, admitted to attend the most refined circles Neoplatonists of Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent. As well as presenting a large number of autographs and pictures of representative works of the artists who have most influence on its formation and its business matures, the Perugia location will document the rich, fascinating graphic production, attentive to modern research physiognomic and dynamic tension of body.
In the cathedral of Orvieto Signorelli painted the grand cycle of the Chapel of San Brizio (1499-1504), which represents the absolute top of a Renaissance painting. Inside the Museum Opera del Duomo will be found a space entirely dedicated to Signorelli and will be set up the restoration of Pala Paciano, open to the public and exposed to the Santa Maria Maddalena and the rare painting on tile terracotta in which ae painted Luca Signorelli and Niccolò Franchi.
In the monumental Palazzo Vitelli in Citta di Castello to the gunboat, built in the early sixteenth century by the magnate family which Signorelli tied himself from a young age, will set up the final product segment. For Vitelli family, Luca Signorelli created the portrait of Niccolò and his son Camillo and Vitellozzo; tifernati clients and other related works are of great importance. The altarpiece of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1498-1500 approx) of Signorelli, is displayed next to the only work of the master from Urbino still exists in Città di Castello the Banner of the SS. Trinity (1499 approx), and other works of Signorelli, the banner of St. John and the Pala di Santa Cecilia, preserved in the Palazzo Vitelli, home of the Municipal Art Gallery (Pinacoteca comunale). Will host a series of works tifernati predella by Signorelli painted to decorate the altar laid off in the last years of his career, in which it will be interesting to see the look of the landscape and figurative painter to details evocative and often unusual.
Following an established custom of the great exhibitions of Umbria Signorelli also be organized itineraries to sites that preserve the artist's works, especially in the Tiber valley: the little-known but fascinating frescoes with Stories of Passion, created by the painter from Cortona, around 1510, the Oratory of St. Creswell in Morra, the church-museum of Santa Croce Umbertide with a panel representing the Deposition from the Cross and in 1516, surpassing the current administrative boundaries, the banner of St. Anthony, in the church namesake of Sansepolcro. Not to mention that Cortona, his hometown, retains a number of masterpieces such as the Communion of the Apostles and the Lamentation over the Dead Christ in the Diocesan Museum.
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