V. Garibaldi - Abstract

The opportunity offered by the complex restoration of the church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, now in an advanced state of recovery, and data emerging from critical survey of the equipment walls and the study of the original structure of the Baglioni Chapel for which Raphael painted the Deposition now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, provide substantive elements in the specification of the original location of the great altarpiece.

Composed of several elements painted, preserved also in the Pinacoteca Vaticana and the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, which is providing the technical and measures likely the result of targeted diagnostic tests, without a single spatial dimension, the altarpiece was probably inserted in a painted scene behind manifested by the legacy of two hundred florins for a new decoration of the Chapel by Angela, mother Atalanta Baglioni, who commissioned the work.