Leonardo da Vinci's Last supper

By Pietro C. Marani

Subjects: Italian Mural painting and decoration, Last Supper (Leonardo, da Vinci), Last Supper in art, Santa Maria delle Grazie (Church : Milan, Italy), Renaissance Mural painting and decoration

Description: Filled with color photographs of details of the masterpiece on the north wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, a visitor's guide to Leonardo da Vinci's Last supper, or Cenacolo. The volume's first part reconstructs the painting's history and significance, while the last discusses the results of the restorations that have taken place from the eighteenth century to the completion of the most recent in 1999.