Scenes from the Life of Noah

(or around 1447)[1] by Paolo Uccello in the Chiostro Verde (Green Cloister) of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.

Ham in profile under the much admired pergola with grapes mocks his drunken father while his brothers Shem and Japheth cover Noah's naked body.

[3] Both frescoes have now been transferred to canvas and were restored in 2013–2014, at which time it was considered moving them to an internal room in the complex.

The old man in The Waters Recede —probably Noah himself, who is also shown leaving the ark— blesses the land whilst looking at the bodies strewn around him.

It may be possibly that in this figure someone linked to the monastery is portrayed, perhaps Cosimo the Elder or Pope Eugene IV, the former a major patron and the latter was then staying there.