The unique and inspiring frame offered by the Monumental Complex of St. Peter in Perugia provides the setting for "Sassoferrato. From Louvre to St. Peter: the gathered collection", the exhibition bringing together an important group of paintings of the painter who was heir of Perugino and Raphael.

The Immaculate Conception, masterpiece by Giovan Battista Salvi, after more than two centuries, is coming back to the Umbrian main town, on the occasion of the exhibition: indeed the wonderful canvas has been drawn in 1812 from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter by order of Dominique-Vivant Denon, director of the Musée Napoléon (the current Louvre Museum) and since then it always remained in France.

Beyond the 17 artworks made by Sassoferrato for St. Peter, the exhibition includes several other paintings, coming from Italian as well as foreign public and private collections, belonging both to the artist and to the masters whom he inspired to, such as Pietro Perugino and Domenico Tintoretto. Comparisons with Sassoferrato's contemporaries (such as the Spadarino in the Caravaggio style) and his active imitators in Umbria will not fail.

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