Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Santa Maria delle Grazie is a Renaissance church and Dominican convent in Milan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its refectory wall bears Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, one of the most famous paintings in history.

  • The Last Supper

    ByDominik Szobak

    Here is a fact that stops most people in their tracks: The Last Supper was never painted on canvas. Leonardo da Vinci applied his pigments directly onto a dry plastered wall using a pioneering experimental technique — and within just a few decades of its completion, the paint had already begun to flake. The miracle…