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The Florentine cenacles

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In Florence there is a unique little-known tour of great cultural interest: the Cenacles, rich in frescoes and monumental tables with the theme of the Last Supper.

The works are kept in the place for which they were designed and commissioned between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

An itinerary that begins with Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce around 1340 and continues with Orcagna, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Franciabigio up to the mature sixteenth century with Andrea del Sarto and Alessandro Allori, who will close the path with the Upper Room of Carmine (1582).

Points of interest
CENACLE OF SAN SALVI

In the ancient refectory of the Vallombrosan abbey in the Florentine suburbs, Andrea del Sarto painted the realistic Last Supper, his most spectacular masterpiece, one of the most beautiful paintings in the universe (begun in 1519 and finished in 1527).

CENACOLO DELLA CALZA

The convent where Franciabigio frescoed the entire back wall with the Last Supper (1514) was called S. Giovanni alla Porta di San Pier Gattolino, deriving its present name from the hood of the Ingesuati monks.

FOLIGNO DINNER

Cenacolo di Foligno: in the refectory of the ex-convent of the Franciscan tertiary of S. Onofrio, known as of Fuligno, Perugino painted the Last Supper (1495 ca.) characterized by the luminous Umbrian background, while the figures appear from school.

CENACLE OF SAN MARCO

Domenico Ghirlandaio’s fresco depicting the Last Supper (c. 1482) decorates the small refectory of the Dominican convent of San Marco.

CENACOLO DI ALLISSANTI

In the head of the large refectory of the convent of Ognissanti the Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1480) is depicted, and the sinopia is also visible on the fresco.

CENACLE OF S. CROCE

The Last Supper by Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1340) with the Tree of the Cross above it and other scenes, fresco. Formerly attributed to Giotto, it is perhaps the first major representation of the ‘Dinner’ in Florence.

CENACLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Fragment of the Last Supper (below the Crucifixion scene) by Andrea Orcagna (c. 1370), fresco.

CENACLE OF SANTA APOLLONIA

The Last Supper (before 1450), dominated by the Crucifixion, Deposition and Resurrection, is Andrea Del Castagno’s fresco masterpiece.