Fondazione Orintia Carletti Bonucci
The Fondazione Orintia Carletti Bonucc,i located in a 16th century palazzo on Via Baldeschi, was founded in 1970 by Mario Bonucci, last scion of the family which in 1834 took possession of the building previously inhabited by the Righetti, Danzetta, della Corgna and lastly the Baldeschi family who originally built it in the second half of the 16th century. It contains an important collection of paintings comprising 87 works, including some of great artistic merit.
Among them the following are particularly noteworthy: a Madonna and Child by Domenico Beccafumi; an Allergory of Charity by Dono Doni; a painting by San Giovanni Battista and a Bacchus reclining attributed to Maestro di Baranello, whose gifts, recalling those of Caravaggio, were once confused with Tommaso (Mao) Salini; A triple Portrait of an Old man allegedly the work of Giovanni Serodine; a canvas of Paolo e Francesca, which is said to be by Artemisia Gentileschi.
Th hall on the piano nobile [main or principal floor of a noble dwelling] has vaults decorated by a team who used the Baroque language popular in Perugia in the late 16th century and the first two decades of the 17th and which is particularly useful for tracing the genealogy of the De Ubaldis (Baldeschi) family boasting a proud line of jurists of whom, in the second half of the 14th century, Baldo degli Ubaldi was the foremost.
Contacts:
Address: Via Baldeschi, 2 - 06123 Perugia PG
Phone: 075 5721717
Email: fondazionebonucci@gmail.com
