Crucifixion – Church of Sant’Agostino – Siena
The work, also known as Pala Chigi, was commissioned to Perugino in August 1502 by Mariano Chigi for the homonymous family chapel in the Sienese
The work, also known as Pala Chigi, was commissioned to Perugino in August 1502 by Mariano Chigi for the homonymous family chapel in the Sienese
The table, realized after commission of the same family of which, following the restoration, the coat of arms has reappeared, was donated by the will
The work is located along the left aisle, in the Basilica Concattedrale of Saint John the Baptist. The composition is incredibly similar to the central
The work was attributed to Pietro Vannucci only after a complex discussion by critics.The image, showing a Madonna with Child, was commissioned by some private
The tablet bears the inscription of the name of don Biagio Milanesi, who in 1500 dressed the role of Abbot and Father General of the
The painting was originally to be placed en pendant, together with the Portrait of Don Biagio Milanesi, in the lower part of the Vallombrosa Altarpiece,
The Assumption was part of a complex altar machine, then dismembered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, commissioned in 1488 by Don Biagio Milanesi
The work was originally embedded in the large wooden altar machine commissioned to Baccio d’Agnolo around 1500 for the high altar of the church of
The table is recorded in the Tribuna degli Uffizi in the inventory of 1635, and according to critics it was probably conceived to be placed
The table is an almost identical copy of the one signed by Perugino and kept in Vienna, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum: the only differences between