Pinturicchio has works in the collection Borgia Apartment
Works in the Vatican Library
In 1492, Pinturicchio was summoned to Orvieto Cathedral. He was employed by Pope Alexander VI (Borgia) to decorate a recently completed suite of six rooms, the Borgia Apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. These rooms now form part of the Vatican Library, and five still retain a series of Pinturicchio frescoes. The Umbrian painter worked in these rooms until around 1494, assisted by his pupils, and not without interruption. It was not until Pope Alexander VI died that Pinturicchio left Rome for Umbria, leaving much of the work in Rome to be completed by Michelangelo, Raphael, and company.His other chief frescoes in Rome that still exist in good condition, are in the Bufalini Chapel in the southwest sector of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, probably executed around 1484–1486. On the altar wall is a grand painting of St. Bernardino of Siena between two other saints, crowned by angels; in the upper part is a figure of Christ in a mandorla, surrounded by angel musicians; on the left wall is a large fresco of the miracles performed by the corpse of St. Bernardino, which includes portraits of members of the sponsoring Bufalini family.
One group of three women, the central figure with a child at her breast, recalls the grace of Raphael's second manner. The composition of the main group around the saint's corpse appears to have been suggested by Giotto's painting of St. Francis on his bier that is found in Santa Croce at Florence. On the vault are four noble figures of the Evangelists, usually attributed to Luca Signorelli, but as with the rest of the frescoes in this chapel, more likely are by the hand of Pinturicchio. On the vault of the sacristy of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Pinturicchio painted the "Almighty" surrounded by the Evangelists. During a visit to Orvieto in 1496, Pinturicchio painted two more figures of the Latin Doctors in the choir of the Duomo. Now, like the rest of his work at Orvieto, these figures are almost destroyed. For these he received fifty gold ducats. In Umbria, his masterpiece is the Baglioni Chapel in the church of S. Maria Maggiore in Spello.
Among his panel paintings the following are the most important. An altarpiece for S. Maria de' Fossi at Perugia, painted in 1496–1498, now moved to the city gallery, depicts a Madonna enthroned among Saints, very minutely painted; the wings of the retable have standing figures of St. Augustine and St. Jerome; and the predella has paintings in miniature of the Annunciation and the Evangelists. Another fine altarpiece, similar in delicacy of detail, and probably painted about the same time, is that in the cathedral of San Severino — the Madonna enthroned looks down toward the kneeling donor. In beauty of face and expression, the angels at the sides recall the manner of Lorenzo di Credi or Da Vinci.
The Vatican gallery has the largest of Pinturicchio's panels — the Coronation of the Virgin, with the apostles and other saints below. Several well-executed portraits occur among the kneeling saints. The Virgin, who kneels at Christ's feet to receive her crown, is a figure of great tenderness and beauty, and the lower group is composed with great skill and grace in arrangement.
In 1504, he designed a mosaic floor panel for the Cathedral of Siena: the Story of Fortuna, or the Hill of Virtue. This was executed by Paolo Mannucci in 1506. On top of the panel, a symbolic representation of Knowledge hands the palm of victory to Socrates.
Among the public collections holding works by Pinturicchio are, the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Denver Art Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery, London, Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Princeton University Art Museum, Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the Vatican Museums, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest).Works
Miracles of St Bernardino (1473), Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
Saint Jerome in the Desert (1475-1480), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The Crucifixion with Sts. Jerome and Christopher, c. 1475, oil on wood, 59 × 40 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
Della Rovere Chapel (late 1470s to 1482), Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome; including The Adoration of the Child with St. Jerome
Madonna with Writing Child and St. Jerome (c. 1481), 49.5 × 38 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Assumption of Mary, fresco, Sistine Chapel (1481), later destroyed
Madonna with Blessing Child (c. 1480), National Gallery, London
Bufalini Chapel (c. 1484–1486), frescoes, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
Basso Della Rovere Chapel (c. 1484–1492), frescoes, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
Cybo Chapel (c. 1489–1503) in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome (destroyed); including The Virgin and the Child now in the Cathedral of Massa
Costa Chapel (c. 1488–90), frescos, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome: The Four Doctors of the Church
Madonna of Peace (c. 1490), oil on panel, 143 × 70 cm, Pinacoteca civica Tacchi-Venturi, San Severino Marche, Italy
Semi-Gods Ceiling (c. 1490), oil on paper on wood, Palazzo dei Penitenzieri, Rome
Nursing Madonna (1492), 29.2 × 21.6 cm, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA
Borgia Apartments (c. 1492–1494), frescoes. Vatican City, Rome
Madonna col Bambino e paesaggio 59 x 44 cm, Palazzo Baldeschi, Perugia, Italy
Madonna with Reading Child (c. 1494–1498), 33.7 × 25.4 cm, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Madonna with Writing Child (c. 1494–1498), 61 × 41.6 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Madonna with Writing Child and Bishop (c. 1495), 158 × 77.3 cm, Museu de Belles Arts, Valencia, Spain
Eroli Chapel (1497), frescoes, Cathedral of Spoleto
Santa Maria dei Fossi Altarpiece, oil on panel and canvas, 513 × 314 cm, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
Portrait of a Boy (c. 1500), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
Baglioni Chapel (c. 1500–1501). Santa Maria Maggiore, Spello, Italy
Piccolomini Library (1502–1507), frescoes, Cathedral of Siena, Italy
Coronation of Pius II (c. 1503–1508), fresco, Cathedral of Siena
St. John the Baptist Chapel (1504), Cathedral of Siena
Madonna Enthroned with Saints (1506–1508), 318 × 257 cm, church of Sant'Andrea, Spello
Virgin and Child (51,4 × 40,6) tempera and gold on wood panel, Alicem institute, Luxembourg
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