A Renaissance audience considered: the nuns at S. Apollonia and Castagno's Last Supper.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Hayum, Andree | Copyright information

It is not difficult to explain why, until relatively recently, few visitors to Florence routinely went to see Andrea del Castagno's Last Supper, although the fresco is hardly off the beaten track at S. Apollonia. Only two blocks from that more publicized tourist attraction containing Fra Angelico's works at S. Marco, this neighborhood in the north of the city became notably dense in its concentration of monasteries and convents during the course of the fifteenth century. (1) Giorgi...

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