[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER XVIII 23/37
In the refectory is a large scene of the miracle of the Providenza, when S.Dominic and his companions, during a famine, were fed by two angels with bread; while at the back S.Antonio watches the crucified Christ.
The artist is Sogliano. In addition to Fra Angelico's great crucifixion fresco in the chapter house, is a single Christ crucified, with a monk mourning, by Antonio Pollaiuolo, very like the Fra Angelico in the cloisters; but the colour has left it, and what must have been some noble cypresses are now ghosts dimly visible.
The frame is superb. One other painting we must see--the "Last Supper" of Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Florence has two "Last Suppers" by this artist--one at the Ognissanti and this.
The two works are very similar and have much entertaining interest, but the debt which this owes to Castagno is very obvious: it is indeed Castagno sweetened.
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