refectory

(noun)

A dining-hall especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.

Related Terms

Examples of refectory in the following topics:

  • Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation

    • Veronese was summoned before the Inquisition on the basis that his composition was indecorous for the refectory of a monastery.
    • Paolo Veronese was accused of being indecorous for the refectory of a monastery in his Last Supper (The Feast in the House of Levi).

  • The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

    • His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially notable.

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    • Da Vinci's most celebrated painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, which was painted for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.

  • The Rise of the Monasteries

    • Early Benedictine monasteries were relatively small and consisted of an oratory, a refectory, a dormitory, a scriptorium, guest accommodation, and out-buildings, a group of often quite separate rooms more reminiscent of a decent-sized Roman villa than a large medieval abbey.