Santa Maria delle Grazie. Refectory containing picture of Last supper by Leonardo da Vinci – Historic Reproduction
![Santa Maria delle Grazie. Refectory containing picture of Last supper by Leonardo da Vinci, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4b/4bbc59792f17-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Santa Maria delle Grazie. Refectory containing picture of Last supper by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci's mural of the Last Supper fills the wall of the refectory at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, and this photograph shows the room as it looked around 1900, when the painting had already been treated as a national treasure for generations. The fresco was painted in the 1490s for the Dominican friars who lived at the convent, and Leonardo worked in an experimental oil-and-tempera technique on dry plaster, which made it fragile from the start. Visitors of the period came to study its composition and the reactions of the apostles, and this album page, part of a tour of European cities, records it as one of the sights of Milan.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1910. |
| Notes | In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 114. No. 221. |
| Subjects | Santa Maria delle Grazie (Church : Milan, Italy) Catholic churches--Italy--Milan--1890-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,297 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180161 |
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