1495 - " The Last Supper"
In 1495 Leonardo was commissioned to paint "The Last Supper" in the convent (church) of Santa Maria delle Grazie. This mural was unique because it was actually part of the wall. A new technique artists had started to use was to color the dry wall and paste it up on the wall to form the picture, so the mural actually became part of the wall. It was a very difficult and tedious task. The "Last Supper" depicts the story from the Bible of the last supper where Jesus holds the Passover feast with his apostles knowing that one of them is about to betray him. Leonardo completed this painting in 1498 after three years of work. Unfortunately, a doorway was carved right into the picture near the bottom, so the whole picture is not intact.
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