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Dec 23, 2013 · Giorgio Vasari’s “The Last Supper,” a work from 1546 that was all but ruined in a 1966 flood, is slowly coming back to life in Florence.
Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511 - Florence 1574) Title: Last Supper Date: 1546-1547 Material and tecnique: oil on wood Dimensions: 262 x 660 cm Inscriptions: "HOC FACITE / IN MEAM / COMMEMORATIONEM", above; "CAVALIER
Dec 23, 2013 · One of the most severely damaged works of art to survive was Vasari’s Last Supper, a large-scale panel painting (more than 8 by 21 feet) comprising five major panels, commissioned in 1546 by the nuns of the Florentine Murate Convent.
Learn about the restoration of Giorgio Vasari's Last Supper, a masterpiece of the Renaissance, after it was damaged by flood water in 1966. Discover the technical innovations and the mechanism to protect the painting from future floods.
The city abounds with commemorative exhibitions, but the main event on the day itself is the reinstallation in the Cenacolo, the old refectory of Santa Croce, of Giorgio Vasari’s “ Last...
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Dec 1, 2016 · Giorgio Vasari's 'The Last Supper' was damaged, but has been preserved and replaced 50 years later. In November 1966, the Arno river flooded, ravaging the historic city of Florence, Italy, destroying countless, irreplaceable pieces of art.
Aug 18, 2016 · August 18, 2016. At the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) lab in Florence, Italy, a conservator works to revive The Last Supper, an important late- Renaissance painting by Giorgio Vasari...
