The Last Supper: Leonardo Da Vinci

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The Last Supper

Date created: 1495-1498.

Medium: Gesso, Mastic, Tempera, Pitch.

Where it is today: Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan, Italy.

The Last Supper was painted in Milan, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper in Milan, Italy because he was instructed to paint The Last Supper in the Dominican monastery of the church by Duke of Milan, Ludovico

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