Projection of the docufilm “Sulle sponde del Perugino” – 30 March 2023 10:00 – Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori (Perugia)

The projection of the docufilm “Sulle sponde del Perugino” by Giovanni Piscaglia, a project supported by the Ministry of Culture, Umbria Region and Arpa Umbria, will be held on March 30, at 10 am, at the Sala dei Notari in Perugia.

The documentary focuses on the artist and his artistic training between two different and at the same time similar worlds. On the one hand we have architecture and the fundamental influence of Piero della Francesca, on the other hand, the painting of the religious subject and the training in the studio of Verrocchio.

Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, known to everyone as Perugino, was born in Città della Pieve in the middle of the 15th century and, after a first job in Perugia, he later moved to Florence to work in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Here Perugino works as a colleague Leonardo, and he also starts to educate his pupil Raphael.

Perugino, however, will become famous paradoxically for having been the pupil of Piero della Francesca and the teacher of Raphael himself, names that will impose themselves more energetically in the history of art.
A journey through Italy to discover the great masterpieces: from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the two rooms entirely dedicated to him at the National Gallery of Umbria, from the Nobile Collegio del Cambio to the State Archives of Perugia, from the Augusta library to the San Severo Chapel in Perugia, and also the oratory of Santa Maria dei Bianchi and the cathedral of Santi Gervasio e Protasio in Città della Pieve, the church of San Sebastiano in Panicale, the church of Santa Maria dell’Annunziata, the Palatina Gallery, The Uffizi, the Museo Galileo Galilei, Cenacolo del Fuligno, Liceo Michelangiolo, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Biblioteca San Marco in Florence and the Pinacoteca di Bologna.

The screening will be preceded by a presentation with Andrea Romizi (Mayor of Perugia), Paola Agabiti (Councillor for Culture Umbria Region), Marco Pierini (Director of the National Gallery of Umbria), Luca Proietti (General Director of Arpa Umbria), Ilaria Borletti Buitoni (President of the fifth centenary committee Perugino) and Giovanni Piscaglia (director of the docufilm).