Statues and drawings

The Last Supper

The statues  in the scene of the Last Supper are wooden mannequins, finished and painted only in the visible parts such as the heads and hands. The clothes are made of  canvas. At the end of the fifteenth century these statues were elsewhere and were moved here only around 1615. The frescoes are even more recent. There is a mismatch of styles here: the stiffness of the statues clashes  with the elaborate frescoes. The frescoes are Baroque,  painted by the local artist Antonio Orgiazzi il Vecchio around 1780, while the statues date back to the last decade of the fifteenth century.

 

 

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