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The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
The Last Supper is a large (6.5' × 25') oil painting on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli, one of only four women artists mentioned in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. [1] Nelli was a nun at the Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina in Florence and painted The Last Supper for its refectory. [1]
The Last Supper has been a popular subject in Christian art. [1] Such depictions date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome. Byzantine artists frequently focused on the Apostles receiving Communion, rather than the reclining figures having a meal. By the Renaissance, the Last Supper was a favorite topic in Italian ...
The Last Supper, a 7x2-meter oil painting on canvas in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, is the only signed work by Plautilla Nelli known to survive. Painted in the 1560s, Nelli's Last Supper is the first depiction of the subject by a woman. Florence has the richest tradition of paintings of the Last Supper in the world. Her most significant ...
Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Last Supper (1523) exemplifies the frontal composition that is customary for this subject. Tintoretto depicted the Last Supper several times during his artistic career. His earlier paintings for the Chiesa di San Marcuola (1547) and for the Chiesa di San Felice (1559) depict the scene from a frontal perspective ...
Why was "The Last Supper" referenced at the Opening Ceremony? Long story short: the painting isn't actually the correct reference. While the Olympics performance may have invoked da Vinci's ...
The Last Supper was almost completely lost on August 16, 1943, at the height of World War II in Italy, [16] when a Royal Air Force bomb struck Santa Maria delle Grazie, destroying the roof of the refectory and demolishing other nearby spaces. [16] The Last Supper had been protected by sandbags, mattresses, and pillows, saving it from ...
The organizers behind the Paris Olympics apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" during Friday's opening ceremony and provoked outrage ...