Andrea del Castagno works in the refectory…

Andrea del Castagno works in the refectory of Sant'Apollonia in Florence, painting, in the lower part, a Last Supper fresco in 1447, accompanied by other scenes portraying the Deposition, Resurrection, and Crucifixion, which are now damaged.

He also paints a lunette in the cloister, depicting a Pietà.

The detail and naturalism of this fresco, which displays del Castagno's talents at his best, portrays the ways in which del Castagno has departed from earlier artistic styles.

It is likely that Leonardo da Vinci was already familiar with this work before he painted his his own Last Supper in a more dramatic form to contrast with the stillness of these works, so that more emotion would be displayed.