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Position: Refectory. This monumental panel painting was commissioned from Vasari in November 1546 on the understanding that he would deliver it within six months and that it would be based on a drawing now in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich.
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.
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.
The restoration of Giorgio Vasari's Last Supper, one of the most astonishing operations to have taken place in recent years, was a result both of the Opera di Santa Croce's determination and of the persistency and technical skills of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
Nov 3, 2016 · Enhanced by scrupulous attention to details of color, light and shadow, “Last Supper” radiates its new life without losing Vasari’s original strength in portraiture.
Aug 18, 2016 · This October Giorgio Vasari’s late-Renaissance painting The Last Supper will return to view 50 years after the flood that almost destroyed it.
Vasari's Last Supper Returns Home 50 Years after Flood. 2016 press release on an international collaboration with the Getty Foundation, Prada and Protezione Civile.
Dec 25, 2013 · In 1546, the Florentine Murate Convent commissioned painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari to make a monumental painting of The Last Supper. The final panorama was more than 21 feet long and 8 feet tall, made out of five poplar wood panels.
Dec 24, 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.
Nov 4, 2016 · One of the most remarkable rescues was of 16th-century artist Giorgio Vasari's "The Last Supper." The painting depicted the scene in the Bible in which Jesus Christ shared his final meal...
