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A Flemish painter made this for the Italian city of Urbino. Joos van Wassenhove, known in Italy as Giusto da Gand, had come south to the brilliant court of Federico da Montefeltro, and between 1472 and 1474 he painted this altarpiece of Christ giving communion to the apostles for the town's confraternity of Corpus Domini. The subject is the first Mass, but the crowd around it is contemporary Urbino. Duke Federico himself stands at the right in profile, his famously broken nose turned towards us, deep in talk with a visitor in a turban, a Persian envoy named Caterino Zeno who had come seeking allies against the Ottoman Turks. Below it had earlier hung a small panel by Paolo Uccello telling a grim story of a stolen communion host.