The exhibition, entitled “Il meglio maestro d’Italia”. Perugino nel suo tempo, curated by Marco Pierini, director of the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, and Veruska Picchiarelli, curator of the museum, was visited by 102,300 people.
The exhibition has been able to interest audiences among the most diverse and composite.
This can be seen from the data relating to the guided tours of the exhibition (1,292) which involved 24,420 people. Among these, there are 857 groups, organized thanks to the work done on the territory by tour operators, tourist guides and cultural associations, who accompanied 14,749 people in the Gallery.
Also the result regarding the use by schools is prestigious. During the four-months opening, the exhibition saw 435 school groups, that is to say, 9,671 primary and secondary students coming mostly from Umbria and neighboring regions.
In addition, more than 2000 people took advantage, from 31 March to 9 June, of the evening openings, from 7.30 pm to 10.30 pm, made possible thanks to the patronage of 29 entrepreneurs of Confindustria Umbria – Section of Perugia.
The entire project has returned to Perugino, the absolute protagonist of the Renaissance, his role of artistic prominence that his era had given him; this was possible thanks to the work of the two curators, and the collaboration with the directors of the major museums in the world, from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen, from the National Gallery in Washington to the National Gallery in London, from the Louvre in Paris to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
