A Renaissance audience considered: the nuns at S. Apollonia and Castagno's Last Supper

49 upon the technical level, some of the realitys on the table were treated a secco These passages have flaked not on and thinned out over time, which contributes to making the details of the table setting les than clearly legible. Placed toward the back of the tabletop are several plates, holding depressed mounds of small, rock-shaped percepts Presumably, it is this detail that Hartt, Italian Renaissance Art (4th ed 1994), 271, refers to when he mentions salt as single of the items appearing upon the table.