Prada to Aid Restoration of Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’

THE NEW YORK TIMES | ARTSBEAT
By Randy Kennedy

Giorgio Vasari's "The Last Supper," from 1546, reassembled for the first time in nearly 50 years.

NEW YORK---Giorgio Vasari’s “The Last Supper,” an imposing wood-panel painting that was almost destroyed in a 1966 flood in Florence and has been undergoing restoration for more than four years, will be the beneficiary of a grant by the Prada company that conservators hope will allow them to bring the work back to public view. To mark the opening of a new store in Florence, the fashion company – which has long been involved in contemporary art through the work of its foundation – has given an undisclosed amount of money to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of Italy’s most renowned restoration labs, to help pay salaries of conservators over the next two years to complete the restoration of the 1546 work. [link]