From the flood to new life: restoration of the Last Supper by Giorgio Vasari : Santa Croce fifty years after (1966-2016)

Contents

Art historical studies : -- The Last Supper by Giorgio Vasari for the Convent of Le Murate : context, patronage, and an episode of religious crisis in the sixteenth century / Alessandro Nova -- The res aedificatoria by Vasari reflected in the figurative arts : notes on the painted architecture in the Last Supper of Le Murate / Emanuela Ferretti -- Vasari's Last Supper in the refectory of Le Murate : a reconstruction of the architectural context / Daniela Smalzi -- The Last Supper by Vasari in Santa Croce / Ludovica Sebregondi and Claudia Timossi -- Giorgio Vasari and the floods / Giorgio Valentino Federici -- Technical studies : -- Fifty years later : the conservation problems of the paintings damaged by the flood / Marco Ciatti -- Appendice I. Report by the Superintendent U. Procacci from December 14, 1966 -- Appendice II. Report by U. Baldini on the restoration work from February 27, 1967 -- The Last Supper and the Panel Paintings Initiative / Antoine Wilmering -- The Last Supper by Giorgio Vasari : forty years in storage and ten of restoration : the end of a cycle? / Roberto Bellucci -- The five wooden supports declared irreparable : from the point of no return to full recovery / Ciro Castelli, Alberto Dimuccio, Mauro Parri, and Andrea Santacesaria -- The Last Supper by Vasari : a painting almost impossible to restore / Elisabetta Bianco, Antonella Casaccia, Ilaria Corsini, Chiara Mignani, and Debora Minotti -- The system designed to elevate the Last Supper / Marco Pancani -- Scientific analyses : -- Three-dimensional scanning study of the lifting paint surface / Raffaella Fontana, Enrico Pampaloni, and Paolo Pingi -- Vasari's painting analyzed in the Scientific Laboratory / Carlo Galliano Lalli, Giancarlo Lanterna, Isetta Tosini, and Federica Innocenti.