The frescoes By Bern: Pinturicchio, In The Collegiate Church Of S. Maria Maggiore, At Spello.

Sir Austen Henry Layard

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3218

Author

Imprint

[London]: (Printed For The Arundel Society, 24, Old Bond Street., Publication Of The Tenth Year, 1858.

Physical Description

16 p.: [1] illus.; 258 mm.

Contents

[T.p.] - [Text].

Responsibility Note

The name of the author, A.H. Layard, appears at the end of the text.

The headpiece is signed, 'From a drawing by Mrs. Burr. O. Jewitt Del Et Sc.'

The colophon gives the name of the publisher and date of publication.

References

On Layard and on interest in Renaissance painting see the note on A.H. Layard, The Brancacci Chapel (1868).

Summary Note

This is an account of the wall-paintings painted by Pinturicchio in the Baglioni chapel in the cathedral church of Santa Maria maggiore at Spello in Umbria in 1500. The subject of the paintings is the life of the Blessed Virgin and the young Christ.

The only illustration is a headpiece view of the ancient town-gate of Spello.

Binding Note

19th-century green cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'B. Pinturicchio Di P.E. Visconti - Frescoes By Layard' and 'R.A.' Bound with one other.

Name as Subject

Subject

Christian art and symbolism
Paintings - Frescoes - Mural painting and decoration - Churches - Italy - Umbria - Spello - History - 16th century
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Mrs. Mary Higford Burr, draughtsman
Orlando Jewitt, engraver
Arundel Society, publisher