Renaissance Nun’s ‘Last Supper’ Painting Makes Public Debut After 450 Years in Hiding. The 21-foot canvas, created by self-taught artist and nun Plautilla Nelli, is now on view in Florence.

Plautilla Nelli painted a depiction of The Last Supper in the mid-1500s. ... Nelli's grand masterpiece is the only known "Last Supper" painted during the Renaissance by a woman.

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence was unveiled to the public Friday after years ...

What is believed to be the only Last Supper of the Italian Renaissance painted by a female artist has gone on public view for the first time after a painstaking four-year restoration. Measuring ...

A Renaissance painting, Giorgio Vasari's “The Last Supper”, that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence, will be reinstalled in the basilica and unveiled to the public on Friday, Nov. 4 ...

A TV crew films Leonardo da Vinci's painting ' The Last Supper ', dating back to 1494-1498 and preserved at the ex-Renaissance refectory of the convent adjacent to the sanctuary of Santa Maria ...

TheLiving Last Supper, a play first popularized among Protestant congregations decades ago, re-creates the iconic Renaissance mural in real life, in exacting detail, down to costume colors, facial ...

Badly damaged in a 1966 flood, Giorgio Vasari’s “The Last Supper” was once considered impossible to restore. Now, after a painstaking seven-year conservation project, the painting is finally ...