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This website is a fully searchable database of 51 published and unpublished documents relating to the life and art of the Italian renaissance artist Luca Signorelli (c.1450-1523). In as many cases as possible these Latin and Italian documents are accompanied by a photograph of the original document, and very occasionally by a translation into English. The idea is to make as much source material as possible available to a wide audience, and to allow this material to be carefully searched and (wherever possible) compared with an image of the original document which can be enlarged for ease of comparison.

This website is a pilot site for a proposed larger site for the publication of Italian renaissance documentation. This will include a facility for accredited scholars to add documents that they have transcribed. Some transcriptions may need further work, and image quality is limited in this pilot by the use of existing photographs. Feedback is invited to the Weblog or to Dr Tom Henry, formerly Reader in the History of Italian Renaissance Art, Oxford Brookes University.