1. The painting depicts a shocking moment from the Last Supper. The Last Supper was a common motif for the artists of da Vinci’s time. But the ingenious painter decided to focus on a specific ...

A notebook featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Dilara Irem. Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci started The Last Supper in the early 1490s. At the time, depictions of Christ sharing his final meal with his apostles were often sedate. Leonardo wanted to capture the drama of ...

Visitors with their mobile phone take photos of "The Last Supper" (Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena), Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci's late 15th-century mural painting housed by the refectory of the ...

The earliest version of the “Last Supper” depicts Jesus’ right sleeve not resting on the table, as seen in the above metalcut, proving this was made before 1520 in the lifetime of Da Vinci; ...

It is almost impossible nowadays, when thinking about Jesus’ Last Supper, not to picture it in the very same way as Leonardo da Vinci did, five centuries ago (1495-1497).

Leonardo da Vinci’s mural of the Last Supper may be the most famous depiction of Jesus’ final meal with the disciples before his crucifixion. But it is only one of many paintings interpreting ...

Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series.

Someone with deep pockets can soon own art related to "The Last Supper." A pair of chalk and pastel drawings of Leonardo da Vinci's legendary painting will soon go up for auction by Sotheby's.

The Burnses and McMahon were excited to pull in different voices to appreciate Da Vinci’s story — a brace of art historians and Leonardo biographers, of course, but also contemporary artists ...