The Last Supper (1495 to 1498)

The Last Supper, painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1495 and 1498, catches the second after a sentence lands. One of you will betray me. The table comes apart: twelve men in four groups of three, half risen, turning, hands open in protest. In the center the speaker sits still with his hands open and his eyes down. One figure alone pulls back into shadow with a small bag clutched in his fist.Leonardo engineered that stillness. Every line of the painted room converges on a single point behind the central head, so the architecture itself points at him. He painted it on the end wall of a monastery dining hall in Milan and refused true fresco, choosing an experimental technique that let him work slowly. It began flaking in his lifetime, a door was cut through it in 1652, and a 21 year restoration finished in 1999. The original is a wall painting and can never leave that room.Museum grade giclee on 380gsm cotton canvas, hand stretched over kiln dried pine, ready to hang. 100 day returns, free tracked shipping, lifetime color warranty.