Promoted and organized from the Common one of Umbertide, 2 Sunday July 2006, to hours 17,30, near the Museum of Saint Croce di Umbertide (PG), the extension is inaugurated “FRIENDSHIP and FRANCESCANESIMO: LUCA SIGNORELLI, UMBERTIDE AND the SHOVEL OF CROCE SAINT” cured from Tom Henry. The exposure means to honor the activity of celebre the rinascimentale artist to Fratta, ancient name of odierna the Umbertide. Beyond to the “Deposition from the Cross” gia' in the church/museum, realized from the cortonese painter for the Confraternita premises of it disciplines you of Saint Maria and Santa Croce in 1516, the extension accommodates the fragment with Head of Christ give beyond 50 years never exposed to the public, coming from from private collection, predella of the Shovel of Saint the Cecilia, coming from from the Pinacoteca di Città di Castello and the unknown preparatorio design of the lignea machine of altar of Giampietro Zuccari of 1610 that incastona the “Deposition”. Moreover, they will come exposed antichi documents like notarial deeds, registries of accountings, inherent the vicissitudes of the Signorelli and the Zuccari. All the coming from material from the Archives of State of Perugia and from the Historical Archives of the Common one of Umbertide little is known to the students and the public. Didactic panels will wide illustrate us the job of restoration carried out from the ICR Institute Center them of the Restoration of Roma.Quella di Luca Signorelli have been one important career: it has worked for papi and cardinals beyond that for private and confraternite city facoltosi. The “deposition from the Cross” was commissioned to Luca Signorelli in 1516 for the altar of the Church of Croce Saint from the premises Confraternita di Fratta. And' one of the last works of its career and extension as the painter was at this point at the head of an organized one bottega that he collaborated to the numerous assigned store clerks. The main topic of the table, the Deposition from the Cross, is inserted from the artist in a wider context that illustrates the salienti moments of the Passion of Christ. The reading of the painting begins up on the left where the three crosses planted on the Golgota mark the moment of the Crocifissione. The scene centers them is the Deposition, which they assist the group of the Marie, on the left the Vergine already svenuta to earth, the Maddalena to the feet of the Cross, picked nele tender and deprived of hope gesture to collect with the hand the blood of Christ. The group is closed to right with the figure of Saint Giovanni, with the transport of the body towards the sepolcro, during which Christ, hardened from the dead women, comes lamented from its beloveds.
The three panels of predella, given the intitolazione of the Confraternita to the Croce Saint, are dedicate you to the legend of the “Ritrovamento of the True Cross of Christ”, in the version proposed from a text much diffusing in the Middle Ages, the “Gold Legenda” of Jacopo from Varagine. In the 1612 Confraternita di Santa Croce, in occasion of the widening of the Church, fastosa machine of altar to the intagliatore Giampietro Zuccari in which inserting the work of the Signorelli commissioned one. The catalogue of the Petruzzi Publisher is edited by Tom History Henry (teaching of the Art near the University of Oxford Brookes and collaborator near the National Gallery of London) and contains the tests of Tom Henry, of Valentina Ricci Vitiani (teaching of History of the Art and studious) and of Albertina Gentle, restauratrice near the Institute Centers them of the Restoration of Rome; and still, the cards and the reproduction to colors and black white man/of the exposed works. News on the Museum of Croce Saint
The civic Museum of Umbertide has center in the Church of Croce Saint and has been inaugurated in the December of 1998, to conclusion of the restoration of the” Deposition from the Cross” of Luca Signorelli.Oltre to the work of the cortonese painter, conserves in the museum the “Madonna with the Child in Gloria between Angels and knows you” of Niccolò Circignani, saying the Pomarancio; burlaps of religious subject realized between the XVII and XVIII the representing century and the lignea sculpture Saint Rocco di Romano Alberti, saying the “Black one” from Sansepolcro, coming from from the near church of Saint Francisco. L´edificio rises near l´antico “inferior village” of Fratta (this l´antico name of Umbertide), originally outside from walls citizens. In the same area, where already in 1295 small church is documented one, perhaps identifiable with that one of the SS. Peter and Paul, came constructed in the first years of the 1300's the more important building of the public square, the church of Saint Francisco and, to the half of the successive century laughed them instead l´oratorio of the Confraternita of Discipline you of the Name of Jesus, then Church of Saint Bernardino. Both the churches have endured participations of adaptation between 600 and 700, period in which, with the definitive widening of the church of Croce Saint, the order of the scenografica public square was completed harmonically.

EXTENSION ON LUCA SIGNORELLI TO UMBERTIDE
FRIENDSHIP AND FRANCESCANESIMO: LUCA SIGNORELLI, UMBERTIDE AND THE SHOVEL OF CROCE SAINT "
Umbertide, Museum of Croce Saint
2 July - 24 October 2006


USEFUL INFORMATION
Duration: 2 July - 24 October 2006
Center: Museum of Saint Croce di Umbertide (PG)
Timetable: 10,30 - 13 and 16 - 18,30 closed mondays
Ticket of income: entire Euro 2,50 - reduced Euro 1,50 (under the 18 years, beyond 65 years, university students with tesserino, adult groups minimal 15 persons) - reduced for the schools Euro 0,50

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