Maestro dell' Abside Destra di
San Francesco di Montefalco (early 15th century)
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Maestro dell' Abside Destra in: Foligno Montefalco Trevi
Maestro dell' Abside Destra di
San Francesco di Montefalco (early 15th century)
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Maestro dell' Abside Destra in: Foligno Montefalco Trevi
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Frescoes in San Francesco (ca. 1420)



These votive frescoes in the right apsidal chapel of San Francesco (now the Pinacoteca) are the autograph works of the Maestro dell' Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco. They depict:
✴on the left pilaster:
•SS Bridget of Sweden and Antony Abbot;
✴on the left wall:
•the Crucifixion (above); and
•the martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria;
✴on the back wall:
•the Annunciation (above)
•St Apollonia, the Lamb of God and St Lucy (around the window);
•St Francis with a female donor, who clutches at his cord, a symbol of poverty, as the way to salvation (lower left); and
•St John the Baptist (lower right);
✴on the right wall;
•the Madonna and Child with SS Peter and Paul (above); and
•the Deposition; and
✴on the right pilaster:
•St Bartholomew.
Foligno
Dormition and Coronation of the Virgin (1391)

Frescoes in San Domenico
Frescoes (ca. 1400) in San Domenico that are attributed to the Maestro dell’ Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco include the following (with numbers in square brackets corresponding to the guide in the church):
Dormition and Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1400) [??]

Volto Santo (early 15th century) [1]

Madonna del Latte with saints (early 15th century) [4]

Stigmatisation of St Catherine of Siena (early 15th century) [5]

Christ in the house of Mary and Martha (ca. 1400) [7]

Madonna and Child with saints (ca. 1400) [14]

Presentation at the Temple (ca. 1400) [25]

Frescoes (ca. 1400)

✴the Crucifixion, with;
•the Virgin and her women to the left;
•St John the Evangelist to the right;
•St Mary Magdalene kneeling at the foot of the cross; and
•angels collecting blood from the wounds in the hands of Christ;
✴the mystic marriage of St Catherine with a kneeling donor, perhaps Ugolino Trinci; and
✴fragments of scenes from the Passion of Christ.
Way to Calvary (ca. 1400)

This fresco, which is attributed to the Maestro dell’ Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco, is to the right on the right wall of the Cappella di San Matteo in San Francesco.
Verification of the True Cross (late 14th century)
This fresco fragment, which is attributed to the Maestro dell' Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco, came from the church of the nunnery of Sant’ Agnese and is now in the Pinacoteca Civica. It depicts a scene in which the True Cross is identified when it brings a corpse back to life.
Scenes from the Passion (late 14th century)
These frescoes, which are attributed to the Maestro dell' Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco, were detached from the nunnery of Sant’ Elisabetta in 1909 and are now in the Pinacoteca Civica. They depict:
✴Christ in the garden (1);
✴the capture of Christ, in which Judas kisses Christ as He warns Peter not to throttle one of His captors (2);
✴the way to Calvary (3); and
✴the main scene of the Crucifixion (4), of which only the upper part survives;
✴the Deposition (5);
✴the Resurrection (6);
✴a pious woman (7); and
✴a fragment in which a female saint hands out what seem to be small scrolls to a group of young women (8).
Scenes from the life of Christ (late 14th or early 15th century)
This fresco cycle, which apparently survives on the right wall of the presbytery of Santa Caterina Vecchia, is attributed to the Maestro dell' Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco.
Trevi
Frescoes in San Francesco (ca. 1400)
The frescoes in San Francesco that are attributed to Maestro dell’ Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco include:


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