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LEONARDO da Vinci: Last Supper (copy)

🖼 Last Supper (copy), 16th century
Oil on canvas
418 × 794 cm
Tongerlo

Leonardo's Last Supper stands as one of the most revolutionary compositions in Western art, capturing the dramatic moment when Christ announces his betrayal to the apostles. This monumental work, painted in the refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie, pioneered a new approach to narrative art by freezing a moment of psychological intensity, with each disciple's reaction revealing his unique character and emotional state. The version housed at the Da Vinci Museum in Tongerlo represents one of several contemporary copies made to preserve Leonardo's genius, as the original has suffered from centuries of deterioration.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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