User:Jayable/sandbox/The Last Supper (Plautilla Nelli)
Subject
[edit]The painting describes Christ and his twelve Apostles giving a holy prototype for the guardian of his companions and confraternity, twelve of themselves sat on the benches next to Christ. Illustrating the scene of the Eucharist and it was, of course, a major concern of the scuola’s. Christ offers the bread to an apostle who bends forward with hand on the heart to receive it, bringing close to us. Since no proper chalice was seen on the table, it has been supposed that the artist was supporting the use of Communion under one species. In the scene, Christ gave his followers both his body to eat and a blood to drink as an example of love and service to his fellows. If you want to be perfect, follow the commandments as to love God with all your heart and mind and to love your neighbors as you love yourself. If you were to follow these commandments, then you will be saved by god because the first commandment is to love god always with the same love he bore for us through his glorious passion. With his glorious passion he has saved us, we ought both for charity and reason to serve our neighbors as attentively as we can.
Description
[edit]The painting provides a fascinating scholarly examination that closely ties its subject to the dietary habits and daily lives of the Dominican nuns who have seen this work. The publication of the painting is enriched with appendices documenting paintings and drawings regarding to the Italian texts and artist of Vasari’s and Razzi’s life story about Nelli. It had long formed part of narrative cycles of the Passion of Christ and Life. An important shift occurred when the Last Supper was monumentalized to become a principal sense and focus in Florence, for the ends walls of monastery refectories. The Last Supper extends horizontally at the bottom of the frame, creating, in effect, a giant predella for an implied triptych scene constituting the decoration on the wall.
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| Artist | Plautilla Nelli |
| Year | 1550s |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Location | Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence |
The Last Supper is a large (6.5' × 25') oil painting on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli, one of only four women artists mentioned in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.[1] Nelli was a nun at the Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina in Florence and painted The Last Supper for its refectory.[1] The painting was largely ignored until the 1990s; it was restored in the 2010s.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Smarthistory – Plautilla Nelli, The Last Supper". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "The Last Supper by Plautilla Nelli in Santa Maria Novella". Santa Maria Novella. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
References
[edit]- Linda Falcone, editor, Visible: Plautilla Nelli and Her Last Supper Restored; Plautilla Nelli e la sua Ultima Cena restaurata (Prato: B’Gruppo Srl, 2019).
- Ann Roberts, "The Dominican Audience of Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper", Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588): The Painter-Prioress of Renaissance Florence, edited by Jonathan Nelson (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008), pp. 72–83.
External links
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