Location: Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo
Sub-Location: Orvieto, Riformanze, 1484-1526, fol. 345r-v
Type:Institutional record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: D.E. McLellan
Transcription Date: 2005-01-01
Published: yes
Publication Details: Published by L. Fumi, Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Rome, 1891, pp. 406-07, doc. CLVI and R. Vischer, Luca Signorelli und die Italianische Renaissance, eine Kunsthistorische Monographie, Leipzig, 1879, pp. 347-8; new transcription by D.E. McLellan, Luca Signorelli’s Last Judgement Fresco Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, no. 354.

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Luca Signorelli contract to paint the vault of the Cappella Nuova in Orvieto.

Dates: 5.4.1499

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