Artistic itineraries in the territory of Perugia
The city of
Perugia is soaked with maximum level works of art,
but a honour place is dedicated to the works of the
Perugino,
Pietro
Vannucci, who has spent
a lot of its talent in the city, contributing to increase the fame of Perugia
in the world.
The city is literally full of its
masterpieces constituting an itinerary that easily allows to appreciate its
works and its artistic itineraries.
The repertoire
of images of the "
divine painter" is not exclusively contained inside the
National Gallery of
Umbria, hosted in the
Palazzo dei Priori , but are situated in their native centre,
giving in this way the opportunity to the visitors to admire his masterpieces
in the places for which have are been thought.
It's the case,
for instance, of the
Collegio del Cambio, where besides the decorations, in the
Sala delle Udienze there’s the self-portrait of the artist. Otherwise you can visit the
Monastero di
Sant'Agnese, the
Abbazia di San Pietro , the
Chiesa di San Severo< or the
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, where are guarded precious testimonies of the presence of Pietro
Vannucci in Perugia.
The other
artistic pole of the territory is without any doubt
Deruta, a city that during the centuries has more and more developed and
cultivated the passion for the artistic workmanship of the
ceramics , reaching results of elevated quality.
The history of
the ceramics of Deruta is reported in the
Regional Museum of the Ceramics , a place where is collected the historical
memory of an activity that still today characterises the city, making of it one
of the brightest and vivacious realities.
Besides the
museum there is the
Communal Picture-Gallery, which collects masterpieces of the
Perugino, of
Niccolò
Liberatore know as
the Pupil and
many other artists.
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