02.20.06
The last supper. Places to visit Milan
Cenacolo Vinciano - Church Santa Maria della Grazie
Leonardo Da Vinci’s world renowned fresco, after 20 years of work the restoration was finally completed in 1999. Along with the Monna Lisa at the Paris Louvre, The Last Supper is Leonardo’s most famous work. It is one of the paintings most often taken as a symbol of Western Art. It depicts the instant in which Jesus announces to the apostles that he knows one of them will betray him. When Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper he employed a technique different from the traditional one used to paint wall frescoes. The traditional technique was to divide the section of wall to be frescoed into small squares to be painted rapidly one at a time, while the plaster was still moist, so that the paint and the plaster would dry together. Leonardo chose a technique which resembled the one commonly employed to paint on canvas or on wood. This allowed him to paint more than once over the same surface, so that he could retouch details and thereby achieve the end result he had in mind.
Advance reservations are required to view as only twenty people can visit the artwork at a time, for a maximum of fifteen minutes. These tickets sell out several months in advance.
