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This vast room with its original
coffered ceiling holds:
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A.
Madonna of the Rosary
Tempera panel,
from the former Dominican church of the Madonna del Rosario, outside Norcia.
Painted for the main altar, the commission for this altarpiece was given to the
brothers Gerolamo, Vincenzo and Francesco Sparapane in 1547. It is clear that
the Dominicans’ intention was to emulate the panel that J.
Siculo painted six years earlier for the Observants in the “new” Church of
the Annunziata. The latter is one of the most monumental Umbrian paintings from
the first half of the 1500s, currently not on public display.
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B. St.
Juliana
Polychrome wooden
sculpture coming from San Pellegrino di Norcia. Possibly from a Norcia workshop
in the late Gothic period (15th cent.).
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C. Enthroned Madonna and Child, St. Anthony of Padua,
St. Rocco. (Madonna of St. Rocco)
Painted panel from the Church of San Leonardo di Montebufo
(Preci), originally inserted in a fine wooden altar by local craftsmen. It is
the work of Francesco Sparapane (ca 1530).
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D.
St. Francis with the Allegories of Vices and Virtues
Tempera panel
from the Church of San Francesco di Norcia. Attributed to the Florentine
Francesco Botticini, dated to the 1480s.
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E.
Risen Christ Tempera panel.
The signature
“hoc opus Nicolai” is recognized as that of Nicola di Ulisse da Siena, a Tuscan
painter who lived in Norcia from 1442 to 1476-77. |
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F. Madonna and Child with
Franciscan Saints (Panel of the “Tertiaries”)
Tempera panel. Painted by Antonio Liberi
da Faenza, known as Mazzone, a typical Renaissance artist (1519). The airiness
of the composition, the brilliant colors, the vibrant shadow of the coffered
vault, the relationship between the painted architecture and the wooden frame
induced Antonio Corbara to compare the painting to a “great, solemn Faenza
majolica” and to formulate thus his judgment in a private letter, written
shortly before his death: “I am literally astonished by its grandeur and
magnificence: I dare say it is the most beautiful thing to come out of Faenza in
the Renaissance” (1983).
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G. St.
Sebastian Polychrome wooden sculpture.
A noteworthy
example of Renaissance sculpture from Umbria and the Marches at the end of the
1400s. Coronation of the Virgin by Jacopo Siculo, painted in 1541.
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Incoronazione della Vergine of Jacopo
Siculo.
painted in 1541 |
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