| Abstrakt: |
This article intends to be only a fine-tuning of the historical data concerning the Amerino painter Giovan Francesco Perini, whose figure had never been studied up to now following archival documents. Thus various novelties concerning his person emerge. The mother's name had already changed: no longer Margherita Cansacchi, first wife of Perino, her father, but Paolina Clementini. On the other hand, the data of his life in Rome in the first decades of the sixteenth century remain acquired, where he practiced the profession of painter, but we do not know in which workshop; the Roman experience was interrupted by an "accident", a murder he committed in the person of a Milanese priest, guilty of having cheated during a game of cards; after fleeing from Rome, the painter was acquitted of the murder with a Brief of Adrian VI. His marriage to a certain Feliciana, from Vitorchiano, moved his pictorial activity towards the Viterbo area for a few years; after his first wife died, he remarried Cassandra Leonini, from Amelia; he then returned to his city where he participated in public life holding positions in the General Council, as Elder and as Vicar in various castles in the municipality of Amelia. Various works have been attributed to him in the churches of Vitorchiano, then, in Amelia, the frescoes in a chapel dedicated to San Rocco, a Coena Domini for the Confraternity of the SS. Sacramento in Amelia, and another, similar in the local monastery of San Magno. He died in 1574. The article examines two other Coenæ Domini subsequent to the painter's death, both derived from the homonymous subject painted by Livio Agresti for the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome: one is located in the refectory of the former monastery of Santa Caterina, the second on the main altar of the parish church of Guardea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
