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The Refectory

The Last Supper

The last meal of Christ with the twelve apostles, on the eve of his death.

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The Last Supper, updated: around the table, the works of the collection (Caesar, Moses, the Pietà, Mercury, Saint Michael, Napoleon, Plato, the Scribe, Sisyphus, Justice, Venus, Zeus) surround a man in a suit, seated in Christ’s place.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper: Christ and the twelve apostles around the table of the last meal.

Previous version 1495–1498

Current version 2026

Leonardo da Vinci painted it between 1495 and 1498 on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in Milan. The collection has been invited.

Seating plan

From left to right, following the traditional identification of the apostles.

PlacePrevious version 1495–1498Current version 2026
1 Bartholomew Julius Caesar
2 James the Less Moses and the Golden Calf
3 Andrew Pietà
4 Judas IscariotHe kept the common purse (John 13:29). Flying MercuryGod of merchants, travellers and thieves.
5 Peter Place vacant.
6 John Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil
7 Jesus A man in a suit. Unidentified.
8 Thomas Napoleon I
9 James the Greater Plato
10 Philip The Seated Scribe
11 Matthew The Punishment of Sisyphus
12 Jude Thaddeus Justice
13 Simon the Zealot Aphrodite, known as the Venus de Milo
13a — Zeus EnthronedEnd of the table. Extra place set.

Romulus and Remus sent their apologies.

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Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper between 1495 and 1498 for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the wall of the Dominican refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. He did not paint it in true fresco but in tempera on a dry wall: it began to flake in his own lifetime.

In 1652 a doorway was cut beneath the table, removing Christ’s feet. In August 1943 a bomb tore through the refectory; protected by sandbags, the wall held.

The last restoration took twenty-one years, from 1978 to 1999. Since then it has been visited in small groups, for fifteen minutes. The update took one night.

Condition report: Good. The doorway cut in 1652 was removed during the update.

Previous version: Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495–1498, tempera and oil on plaster, refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan (reproduction: Wikimedia Commons, public domain). Current version: Aël, draft.

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