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PERUGINO, Pietro: The Last Supper

🖼 The Last Supper, 1493-96
Fresco
440 × 800 cm
Foligno, Italy

Soft light bathes thirteen figures gathered around a table in geometric harmony, their gestures restrained and devotional. Perugino's composition established the Renaissance formula for Last Supper scenes, balancing spiritual solemnity with mathematical perspective that influenced generations of Italian painters.

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