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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XVIII
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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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