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Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Last Supper (1523) exemplifies the frontal composition that is customary for this subject. Tintoretto depicted the Last Supper several times during his artistic career. His earlier paintings for the Chiesa di San Marcuola (1547) and for the Chiesa di San Felice (1559) depict the scene from a frontal perspective ...
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Large quantities of lead white in frescoes can be highly toxic, and as it oxidizes to lead dioxide it turns brownish. [10] Leonardo used red chalk and black paint on top of the lead white to sketch out his image, before adding countless layers of mixed pigments. [10] Leonardo used a series of translucent glazes to finish the frescoes. [11]
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One of England's oldest cathedrals is showing its support for Black Lives Matter by displaying a painting of the Last Supper in which Jesus is depicted as a Black man. St. Albans Cathedral has ...
The Last Supper has been a popular subject in Christian art. [1] Such depictions date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome. Byzantine artists frequently focused on the Apostles receiving Communion, rather than the reclining figures having a meal. By the Renaissance, the Last Supper was a favorite topic in Italian ...
Source/Photographer: Originally published/produced in Italy, circa 1500. Held and digitised by the British Library, and uploaded to Flickr Commons. A higher resolution version may be available for purchase from BL Images Online, imagesonline.bl.uk, reference D40003-53