Palazzo Zucchetti has been the seat of the Panicale Town Hall since 1870. In the halls on the main floor, used as the Council room and the Council room, the Mariottini collection is exhibited, a gallery of portraits of illustrious men from Panicale which was put together in a period between 1765 and 1780 by Francesco Mariottini (Perugia 1733 – Panicale 1803), professor of Civil and Canon Law.
The paintings decorated the family residence in Panicale, inherited by the Mariottinis from the noble Saccalossi family. Following the unification of Italy (1860), the mayor Pindaro Mancini – the same who had followed the purchase for the Municipality of Palazzo Zucchetti – convinced the last heirs of the Mariottini-Saccalossi to donate the collection of paintings for the new headquarters of the Town Hall.
The most significant piece of the collection is a large canvas containing a “List of illustrious men of Panicale beyond portraits in life", divided into 48 medallions with the busts of as many characters revealed by explanatory cartouches, in imitation of the prints that adorned seventeenth-century texts of heraldry or of the genealogical trees diffused in the environment of the Franciscan families.
Of various origins and from at least six different painters, from the Perugian environment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are the 31 paintings in the collection, which depict a gallery of religious, lawyers and commanders originally from Panicale, and which includes the portrait of Masolino, famous Florentine painter of the time of Masaccio, that of the leader Boldrino Paneri and the poet Cesare Caporali.
L / V 9.00 – 13.00 M / G 15.00 – 17.30
For information;
Culture Office of the Municipality – Tel. 0758379531 Traffic Police Office – Tel. 0758379527
