The Last Supper

Puccio di Simone's The Last Supper (c. 1349) depicts Christ's final meal with his apostles, a pivotal narrative scene in Christian art. A Florentine painter active in the mid-fourteenth century, Puccio worked in the orbit of Bernardo Daddi and carried the accessible narrative traditions of the Florentine school into the years following the Black Death. The pandemic of 1348 devastated Florence's artistic community, making works from this transitional period particularly significant for understanding artistic continuity.

Executed in egg tempera on panel with gold ground, the composition arranges the apostles around a horizontal table in a format derived from earlier Florentine models. The figures display the clear outlines and simplified volumetric forms characteristic of Daddi's workshop tradition.