The Last Supper by Peter Candid

Peter Candid

1548 - 1628

Bruges, Italy

Born in Bruges in 1548, Peter Candid was taken as a child to Florence in 1558, where his father, the tapestry-maker Pieter de Witte, worked at the tapestry manufactory. The family now assumed the surname Candido and the young painter called himself Pietro di Pietro Candido, preferring the Italian form of the name for the rest of his life. Peter Candid probably trained in Florence during the 1560s although no names of teachers are known. Peter Candid is mentioned for the first time in records in 1569 in connection with a fresco in the Chapel di S. Luca, where the Florentine Accademia del Disegn...