Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Last Supper
Image View:
Overall view of the west wall, Last Supper below, scenes of the Passion above
Creator:
Andrea del Castagno (Italian painter, ca. 1421-1457)
Location:
repository: Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via XXVII Aprile 1
GPS:
43.778668 11.256569
Date:
1447 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
453 cm (height) x 975 cm (width)
Description:
Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339. In June 1445 Pope Eugenius IV granted permission to the nuns to extend their buildings, and two years later the abbess hired Andrea to decorate the west wall of the convent’s refectory (Cenacolo) with frescoes of the Last Supper, the Resurrection, the Crucifixion and the Entombment. Castagno worked on these from June to October 1447. The Last Supper has been cleaned three times since 1952 and now appears with very nearly its original clarity of form and brilliance of coloring. It shows Andrea at the height of his powers. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-CAA-SA-LS-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Last Supper