View of the façade
by AGOSTINO DI DUCCIO, Marble
Between 1457 and 1461 Agostino was working on the fa�ade of the oratory of San Bernardino, Perugia. Although the architectural framework of the fa�ade recalls Alberti’s design for San Francesco in Rimini, the sculpture, originally highly polychromed, is rich and intricate, emphasizing line and movement. Above a double door framed by reliefs of angels, a high tympanum contains a relief of St Bernardino in Glory. God the Father appears in the upper pediment, and four aedicules contain statues.