Annunziata Chapel

Hence the decision to found the oratory, next to the already existing church of S. Silvestro, also as an affirmation of area control in a delicate game of political balance. The cycle of frescoes represents scenes from the Old and New Testaments, inspired by the ancient Vatican Basilica’s figurative program, of wich de Frìas held the office of archpriest in 1412: the scenes, punctuated by thin columns, are organized according to registers of different workers, which followed each other from 1430. The first Umbrian culture Lazio master frescoed the altar wall, the vault and the upper registers of the side walls. When de Frìas died in 1426, two influential cardinals of Spanish origin decided to complete the pictorial cycle: Alfonso Carillo de Albornoz and Juan Cervantes de Lora, whose coats of arms can be found on the south wall of the chapel, commissioned the work to a much important late Gothic craftsmanship, that made the figures of the Apostles in the lower register.