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Collegio del Cambio

Address: Corso Vannucci 25, Perugia, 06100
Phone: 075/5728599

Bankers' Guild Hall

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Perugia

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Fodor's Review:

These elaborate rooms, on the ground floor of the Palazzo dei Priori, served as the meeting hall and chapel of the guild of bankers and money changers. Most of the frescoes were done by the most important Perugian painter of the Renaissance, Pietro Vannucci, better known as Perugino. He included a remarkably honest self-portrait on one of the pilasters. The iconography includes common religious themes, such as the Nativity and the Transfiguration seen on the end walls. On the left wall are female figures representing the virtues, beneath them the heroes and sages of antiquity. On the right wall are figures presumed to have been painted in part by Perugino's most famous pupil, Raphael. (His hand, experts say, is most apparent in the figure of Fortitude.) The cappella (chapel) of San Giovanni Battista has frescoes painted by Giannicola di Paolo, another student of Perugino.

Cost: EUR 4.50, EUR 5.50 with Collegio della Mercanzia
Open: Mon.-Sat. 9-12:30 and 2:30-5:30, Sun. 9-2.

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