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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 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 Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
According to Reuters, some Christian groups felt offended by the use of religious imagery—in this case, Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," though the Olympics clarified any resemblance to ...
First, the classical image of the Last Supper comes from da Vinci’s painting. It doesn’t represent the reality of what the Last Supper looked like. The confusion and misplaced anger over the ...
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 ...
Among them are Leonardo and Venice, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (2009) on The Last Supper, and Leonardo da Vinci: Il musico on the Portrait of a Musician. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Marani's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings (2000), alongside Frank Zöllner 's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (2003), is "the most thoroughly ...
Head of Christ is a c.1494 chalk and pastel study by Leonardo da Vinci for his The Last Supper. ... This page was last edited on 30 September 2024, at 06:12 (UTC).