After his acquittal at Nuremberg, von Papen went to the refectory where "his place at the table was marked by the presence on his plate of Joseph Dakak's beloved fruit, an orange".
It lay in the refectory at the church of Santa Croce, in the lowest-lying part of the city, covered by filthy, polluted water.
The workshop made its name in 2007 with a facsimile of Veronese's giant painting "The Wedding at Cana", which has been placed in its original location, the Palladian refectory of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.
During this first Milanese period he also made one of his most famous works, the monumental wall painting The Last Supper (1495 98) in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie (for more analysis of this work, see below The Last Supper).
He was much revered for his wisdom and piety, and it was said that even the Mughal emperor Akbar sought his advice and ate in the Sikhs' casteless langar (communal refectory).
In the Middle Ages it was customary to read aloud at divine office and in the monastic refectory (dining hall) biographies of the principal saints on their feast days.
At some point in the 1340s Gaddi decorated the walls of the refectory at Santa Croce, painting there one of the most impressive of his works, a "Tree of Life" surrounded by scenes from the life of St. Bonaventure, a work of much vigour, with a rich iconography.
The classic compositions at Maser were succeeded by paintings with a tendency to monumentality and with a love for decorative pomp, as in The Marriage at Cana, executed in 1562 and 1563 for the refectory of S. Giorgio Maggiore.
On the first occasion, Clare caused the convent chaplain to elevate the Host at the refectory window, whereupon the Moorish allies of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, who were storming the walls, fell back.
The most striking sections are the refectory, with its high, narrow windows, and the magnificent cloister, with its fine sculptures.
In the Benedictine form, the church was located on one side of the cloister, with the refectory occupying the opposite side, so that the worshipers might be removed from kitchen noises and smells.
