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Palazzo dei Priori
Palazzo dei Priori
General information
Status	The building is well-preserved and renovated
Architectural style	Gothic
Location	Piazza IV Novembre
Town or city	Perugia
Country	Italy
Construction started	1293
Construction stopped	1443

History and Architecture

Description

The facade of the Palace toward Piazza IV Novembre

External Facades

Portale Maggiore

The pulpit
The facade toward Corso Vannucci
The Portale maggiore
A Griffin and a Lion, symbols of the city, decorate the entrance from Piazza della fontana

The inside

Sala dei Notari

Sala dei Notari
The 16th century seats along the perimeter of the room
Detail
The medieval frescoes were realized by local artists

Sala della Vaccara

Sala del consiglio

Cappella dei priori

Sala del Collegio del Cambio

Another important room with an independent entrance on Corso Vannucci, is the room of Udienza del Collegio del Cambio, frescoed between 1498 and 1500 by Perugino, with the help of the pupil Raffaello (of him are the Fortezza and the face of Salomone) and furnished with a great wood bench (Domenico del tasso, 1492-1493) and seats along the walls (Antonio da Mercatello, 1508). Complete the decoration a terracotta statue, which realization is doubt (maybe of Benedetto da Maiano), representing the justice.

The ceiling of Sala del Collegio del Cambio was defined, by Edith Wharton in her "The Decoration of Houses", as one of the three perfect ceiling of the world: «Of all forms of ceiling adornment painting is the most beautiful. Italy, which contains the three perfect ceilings of the world - those of Mantegna in the ducal palace of Mantua (see Plate XXV), of Perugino in the Sala del Cambio at Perugia and of Araldi in the Convent of St. Paul at Parma - is the best field for the study of this branch of art.»^[1]

Sala del Collegio della Mercanzia

Notes

^ Wharton, Edith (1897). The Decoration of Houses. B.T. Batsford. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8478-2916-3.

Bibliography

Touring Club Italiano-La Biblioteca di Repubblica (2004). L'Italia: Umbria. Touring editore.
F.F.Mancini , Il Palazzo dei Priori di Perugia, ediz. Quatroemme"

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External links

Perugia On-line: Palazzo dei Priori

[1] Wharton, Edith (1897). The Decoration of Houses. B.T. Batsford. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8478-2916-3.

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