SIGNORELLI, Luca
(b. ca. 1450, Cortona, d. 1523, Cortona)

View of the Vaulting of the Sacristy of St John

1477-82
Fresco
Basilica of Santa Casa, Loreto

The picture shows the vaulting of the Sacristy of St John with depictions of the four evangelists alternating with the four Latin Church fathers. In the wall compartments, five pairs of apostles, Christ and the Doubting Thomas, and above the door, the Conversion of Paul are depicted.