Key to Umbria: Perugia
 

Bernardino of Mariotto, who was born in Perugia and probably trained there under Ludovico di Angelo.  He moved to San Severino in the Marche early in his career: his earliest known workis a signed panel (1498) of the Madonna and Child in Bastia, near Fabriano.  He returned to Perugia in 1521, bringing with him his pupil Marino di Antonio Samminucci (see below).  He lived to a great age before dying in his native city in 1566.

Perugia

[Early works attributed to him

  1. ✴panel in Palazzo Connestabile Della Staffa (Madonna and Child, in which the baby Jesus holds a bird, with SS Jerome and Sebastian);

  2. ✴panel in Collezione Salvatori (Christ in a mandorla, holding a cross, between seraphs, standing on a podium beside a Eucharistic chalice)]

Madonna and Child with donor (1492)

The inscription at the base of this panel reveals that it was commissioned by a Benedictine nun, Giacoma di Baldo Perigli as an ex voto offering.  It is sometimes attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, but has more recently been attributed to his teacher, Ludovico di Angelo.  It was transferred from San Francesco delle Donne to the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1810 and is now in the deposit of the Galleria Nazionale.

The panel depicts the Madonna and Child, with a nun kneeling to the left.  She must be Sister Giacoma di Baldo Perigli, who was presumably a member of the community at San Francesco delle Donne. 

Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1528) 

Sister Girolama, the Abbess of San Tommaso commissioned this altarpiece from Bernardino di Mariotto.  It was transferred from to the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1810 and was subsequently moved to the Galleria Nazionale.

The altarpiece depicts Christ crowning the Virgin in a mandorla of clouds and seraphim, with a pair of musical angels below.  Another pair of angels above carry garland of jewels and flowers.


Madonna and Child with saints (ca. 1530)

This panel in the Galleria Nazionale, which is attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, is of unknown provenance.  It depicts the kneeling Madonna passing the baby Jesus to St Anne, who is seated under a curtained pagoda.  SS Sebastian and Roch look on from the right, along with two young angels.  One of these holds a finch while the baby Jesus holds a pomegranate, both of which are symbols of the Passion.



Mystical Marriage of St Catherine (ca. 1530)

This panel, which is attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, was transferred from Santa Caterina Nuova to the Galleria Nazionale in 1869.  The nuns probably commissioned it for their original church outside Porta Sant’ Angelo and brought it with them to Santa Caterina Nuova in 1648. 

The altarpiece depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned, with a dove representing the Holy Spirit above and the young St John the Baptist below.  SS Catherine of Alexandria and Peter stand to the left, and St Mary Magdalene and a bishop saint stand to the right.  The Madonna holds the hand of St Catherine while the baby Jesus places a ring on her wedding finger. 


Altarpiece of the Olivetans (1533)

The recently-discovered inscription records that Andrea di Narduccio gave this altarpiece to “the brothers” (i.e. the Olivetan monks of San Secondo, Isole Polvese del Trasimeno) in 1533.  It is attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto.  When the monks abandoned San Secondo in 1624 for Sant’ Antonio Abate, Perugia, they brought the altarpiece with them.  It was recorded there in the 19th century, but it seems to have passed to the Camaldolesian church of San Severo before its entry into the Galleria Nazionale in 1863.  It is now in the deposit of the Galleria Nazionale.

The altarpiece depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned with SS Andrew (the name saint of the donor) and Julian.  According to a late tradition, the latter is a portrait of Gianpaolo Baglioni.

St Laurence (1562)

This painting on leather, which depicts the standing saint holding the grill on which he was martyred, was previously attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto.  However, a recently discovered document reveals that it was one of a number of such works commissioned in 1562 from his associate, Marino di Antonio Samminucci for the choir of the Duomo.  It is now in in the Museo Capitolare.




Madonna and Child with Saints (16th century)

This panel, which is attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, passed from San Francesco delle Donne to the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1810 and is now in the deposit of the Galleria Nazionale.  It depicts the Madonna and Child with the young St John the Baptist and SS Benedict and Francis.

Foligno

Madonna and Child Enthroned (early 16th century)

This panel from Santa Lucia, which is attributed to Bernardino di Mariotto, is now in the Pinacoteca Civica.  It depicts the Madonna on a marble throne under a garland held by putti.  The baby Jesus, who holds an apple, sits on a silk cushion on her lap.   The frame had an inscription that records Sister Plautilla Antonini, and the date 1573 (which is too late to relate to the painting itself, but which might relate to the frame).




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