Palazzo dei Priori

Perugia - PG - Umbria

INFO

The Palazzo dei Priori, now Town Hall and National Gallery of Umbria, was begun in the late thirteenth century. The origins of the collection now on the third floor are connected to the founding of the Academy of Design in Perugia in 1573. In the course of the nineteenth century the collection grew and by 1863 it was of such note that a Civic Picture Gallery was instituted. A few years later it was transferred to the top floor of the Palazzo dei Priori where it was officially inaugurated in 1907. Turned over to the State in 1918, it took the name of Regia Galleria Vannucci, later Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria.

PROJECT

• Flooring with honed 32x16x2 cm rectangular tiles, calibrated and rectified so they could be butt-joined.