The new stage of the project “Lights and colors on the Umbrian Renaissance, from Perugino to Raphael. Diagnostic investigations on the matter and the executive techniques” by the Umbrian Laboratory of diagnostics for cultural heritage (LABDIA) was presented with a suggestive journey inside the new restoration project involving the Chapel of San Severo, where the large fresco executed by Raphael, with the Trinity and Saints, and by his Perugino, that after the death of Sanzio was responsible for completing the lower part by painting six saints of the Benedictine order, is preserved.
The initiative thus follows the recent intervention at the Nobile Collegio del Cambio in Perugia, where the frescoes masterfully executed by Vannucci during the sixteenth century were analyzed.
The overall project, which aims to produce a homogeneous collection of technical data in digital format on the works by Perugino still preserved in Umbria through non-invasive diagnostics, affects a total of 36 paintings.
These diagnostic investigations are made possible by the Region of Umbria – Department of Culture, Fondazione Perugia and the Committee promoting the celebrations for the fifth centenary of the death of Pietro Perugino, and it is coordinated by Vittoria Garibaldi, scientific director of the Laboratory and by Manuela Vagnini, chemist expert in diagnostics applied to cultural heritage.
