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
Montefalco
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 (ca. 1400)
Frescoes 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[??]
Volto Santo [1]
Madonna del Latte with saints [4]
Stigmatisation of St Catherine of Siena [5]
Christ in the house of Mary and Martha [7]
Madonna and Child with saints [14]
Presentation at the Temple [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.
Frescoes from Sant’ Elisabetta (ca. 1400)
The following detached frescoes from the ex-nunnery of Sant’ Elisabetta (later known as Santa Margherita), which are attributed to the Maestro dell' Abside Destra di San Francesco di Montefalco, are now in the Pinacoteca Civica of Foligno
Scenes from the Passion
These frescoes, which were discovered in 1909 during the demolition of part of the ex-nunnery, depicted:
✴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) of which only the upper part survives;
✴the Crucifixion of Christ and the two robbers (4), of which only the upper part survives;
✴the Deposition ; and
✴the Resurrection.
Fresco fragments
Three fragments were found in 1910 in the ex-nunnery. According to Emanuela Cecconelli (referenced below, at p. 378), they depicted;
✴Christ in the house of Mary and Martha;
✴a scene from the legend of the verification of the True Cross in which the relic restored a dead person to life; and
✴a scene from the life of St Elizabeth of Hungary, in which she distributes out what seem to be small scrolls to a number of young women.
Scenes from the life of Christ (ca. 1400)
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:
Read more:
E. Cecconelli, “Ascensidonio Spacca a Foligno: Sulle Tracce di due Opere dell' Artista Bevanate”, Bollettino Storico della Città di Foligno, 37 (2014) 361-98
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