Vasari’s Last Supper back on display 50 years after Florence Flood

The Italian president Sergio Mattarella attended todays unveiling of Giorgio Vasaris newly restored Last Supper (1543). The public can see Vasari's masterpiece for free today and tomorrow from 8pm to midnight.The panel painting housed in the Museo dellOpera di Santa Croce was submerged in polluted water for 12 hours when the Arno River burst its banks on 4 November 1966. The big reveal at the refectory of the Basilica di Santa Croce was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the flood,