{"id":10021,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"da-vinci-s-last-supper-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/da-vinci-s-last-supper-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci&#8217;s Last Supper Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Da Vinci's Last Supper Painting\" alt=\"Da Vinci's Last Supper Painting\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/leonardo-s-last-supper-bc2339d5d8d5.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Last Supper 1498, Mixed technique, 460 x 880 cm Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting of 1498 is not a traditional true fresco (<a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#buon_fresco\"><em>buon fresco<\/em><\/a>) painted on wet plaster, rather it is painted on dry plaster with tempera in the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#fresco_secco\"><em>fresco secco<\/em><\/a> technique.<span> <\/span>Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#refectory\">refectory<\/a> (dining hall) of the convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan, Italy. The stone wall was first prepared for Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting by sealing the stone with pitch, mastic, and gesso. Da Vinci&#8217;s experimental technique caused rapid deterioration of the <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting, as it was described by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10044\">Vasari<\/a>, a Leonardo biographer, as being &#8220;ruined&#8221; by 1556. The dry paint of Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting was reported to already be flaking off as early as 1517, a consequence of his experimental technique. Da Vinci&#8217;s <em>Last Supper<\/em> painting has undergone a number of restorations, the first in 1726, and the last in 1999 which took 21 years to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Da Vinci&#8217;s Last Supper painting of 1498 is not a traditional true fresco (buon fresco) painted on wet plaster, rather it is painted on dry plaster with tempera in the fresco secco technique. Da Vinci&#8217;s Last Supper painting can be found in the refectory (dining hall) of the convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}