Hall 4, 5

The paintings exhibited in this hall are very heterogenious in quality and place of origin and constitute yet another documentation of the intense penetration of Rennaissance art in Città di Castello from outside of Umbria. The Christ blessing with the signs of the passion is an elegant tempera painting on a wooden pannel originally in the convent of "S. Chiara delle Murate". Most art historians have considered it to be the work of a Flemish or Flemish-Spanish painter who worked in Italy, possibly at Urbino, during the second half of the 15th century. An exception is Federico Zeri who believes it to be a work of the Florentine painter Cosimo Rosselli. If so, it would constitute additional evidence of Florentine influence at Città di Castello.
A certain example of Florentine influence is the small Mary holding Baby Jesus and two Angels by Neri di Bicci (1418 - 1492) or his assistants along with other works prepared to decorate country churches.Mural decorations in hall 4
The mural design in the fourth hall consists of circles of acantus leaves in the centers of which lions, leopards, wolves and foxes are represented. It is similar to the design in the third hall, but with different animals represented. This cycle of designs was painted by Cola dell'Amatrice and his assistants, but they are very similar in conception to those painted by Gherardi in the preceeding hall.

Art historians
A. Ronen and L. Teza attribute a consistent part of the work to Gherardi and his assistants. Recurrent motives characteristic of other works known with certainty to be of this painter, such as the sphinxes with women's heads and the cherubs with lions' bodies, also appear in the decorations of this hall.

HALL 5
Hall V exhibits the large pannel with "The crowning of Mary", formerly in the church of S. Cecilia. This painting originated in the great workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, probably during the lifetime of the master (1490 - 1495). Its style is archaic and similar to the "Crowing" at Narni done in 1486.
Mural decorations in hall 5
The decoration of the fifth hall consists of a partly damaged mural design representing sphinxes with women's heads against a white background alongside the heroic deeds of the Vitelli family (with a calf and a palm): cherubs with lions' bodies bearing the flags of the Vitelli - Rossi families alternate with the sphinxes.