SAINT PLACIDUS

The canvasses Saint Placidus and Saint Mauroboth originate from the apartment of the abbot of San Pietro. A document dated February 1649 states that 20 paintings were acquired for the Abbot’s apartment in the same year. It is reasonable to assume that the painting in question was among these. It shows a panel from the predella of the polyptych painted by Perugino (1495-1500). The model provided by Perugino is interpreted in an original manner, in terms of the color, which appears in almost cold tones, and the smoother and more rounded forms in the painting. Essentially, this is an interpretation of the original in a markedly purist key.