Chigi Altarpiece

Painting by Pietro Perugino

Chigi Altarpiece

Artist	Perugino
Year	1506-1507
Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	400 cm × 289 cm (160 in × 114 in)
Location	Sant'Agostino, Sienna

The Chigi Altarpiece is an altarpiece by Perugino, dating to around 1506–1507. It is named after its commissioner Agostino Chigi, a Sienese banker, for the Chigi family chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Siena, where it still hangs.^[1]

Like most altarpieces by Perugino, it has two registers. The upper heavenly one shows Christ on the cross surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of angels and cherubim. The lower earthly register shows eight lamenting saints connected to the commissioner, the church and the chapel - on the right are John the Baptist and Jerome, for example. The deep landscape backgrounds shows hills and a clear sky. The work originally also had a predella, which is now divided between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.

References

^ (in Italian) Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino, in Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Florence, 2004 ISBN 888117099X

Pietro Perugino

Paintings

Nativity of the Virgin (c. 1472)
Pietà Gonfalon (c. 1472)
Visitation (c. 1472–1473)
Miracle of the Snow (c. 1472–1474)
Adoration of the Magi (Perugia) (c. 1470–1476)
God the Father with Two Saints (1477–1478)
St Sebastian between St Roch and St Peter (c. 1478)
Delivery of the Keys (c. 1481–1482)
Baptism of Christ (c. 1482)
Moses Leaving for Egypt (c. 1482)
Apollo and Daphnis (c. 1483)
Galitzin Triptych (c. 1485)
Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi (c. 1488)
Annunciation of Fano (c. 1488–1490)
St Sebastian (Nationalmuseum) (c. 1490)
Albani Torlonia Polyptych (c. 1491)
Madonna and Child with St Rose and St Catherine (c. 1490–1492) (with Andrea Aloigi)
Agony in the Garden (c. 1483–1493)
Pietà (c. 1483–1493)
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian (1493)
The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard (c. 1490–1494)
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Augustine (1494)
Portrait of Francesco delle Opere (1494)
Crucifixion (c. 1483–1495)
St Sebastian (Hermitage) (1493–1494)
Last Supper (c. 1493–1495)
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1495)
Madonna and Child with Two Saints (c. 1495)
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1495)
Pazzi Crucifixion (c. 1495)
Portrait of a Boy (1495)
St Sebastian (Louvre) (c. 1495)
Decemviri Altarpiece (1495–1496)
Fano Altarpiece (1497)
Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (c. 1497)
Madonna della Consolazione (c. 1496–1498)
Madonna del Sacco (c. 1495–1500)
Ascension of Christ (c. 1496–1500)
Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece (c. 1496–1500)
Collegio del Cambio frescos (1496–1500)
San Pietro Polyptych (c. 1496–1500)
San Francesco al Prato Resurrection (c. 1499)
Mary Magdalene (c. 1500)
Tezi Altarpiece (c. 1500)
Vallombrosa Altarpiece (c. 1500)
Madonna in Glory with Saints (c. 1500–1501)
Gonfalon of Justice (c. 1501)
Madonna and Child (c. 1501)
Monteripido Altarpiece (1502)
The Battle Between Love and Chastity (1503)
Adoration of the Magi (1504)
Marriage of the Virgin (c. 1500–1504)
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (1505)
Annunziata Polyptych (1504–1507)
Chigi Altarpiece (c. 1506–1507)
Madonna of Loreto (c. 1507)
St Sebastian (São Paulo) (c. 1507)
Baptism of Christ (Città della Pieve) (c. 1510)
Sansepolcro Altarpiece (c. 1510)
Corciano Altarpiece (1513)
Madonna and Child with St Herculanus and St Constantius (1515)
Transfiguration Altarpiece (1517)
Madonna and Child with St Peter and St Paul (c. 1515–1520)
Holy Trinity (c. 1505–1521) (with Raphael)
Adoration of the Magi (Trevi) (c. 1521–1522)
Spello Pietà (c. 1521–1522)
Fontignano Madonna (1522)
Madonna of Graces with Two Saints (1522)
Sant'Agostino Altarpiece (1502–1523)