GADDI, Taddeo
(b. 1300, Firenze, d. 1366, Firenze)

Last Supper, Tree of Life and Four Miracle Scenes

1360s
Fresco, 1120 x 1170 cm
Santa Croce, Florence

The picture shows the interior of the refectory in Santa Croce in Florence. The frescoes were commissioned by the woman in the garments of a Franciscan tertiary kneeling at the foot of the cross, behind St Francis. At the right are the Priest at his Easter Meal Receiving Word of St Benedict's Hunger in the Wilderness, and the Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ. At the left are the Stigmatisation of St Francis and St Louis of Toulouse Feeding the Poor and Sick of Toulouse.