Conservation-restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper until 1498. The scene is understood to depict the Bible verse John 13:22, showing the reactions of the Twelve Disciples, at the Last Supper, in the moments following Jesus’s announcement that one among them will betray him. When he received the commission for "The Last Supper", Leonardo da Vinci had never worked on a piece of this great a size, fifteen feet high by almost twenty-nine feet wide. He also had very limited experience working in the technique known as fresco, mixing pigment into wet plaster to create a permanent bond. Traditionally, fresco painters put down many successive layers of
The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) mask-wearing people seated at a table strewn with watermelon fragments. The oil painting was sold for $23.3 million at Sotheby's auction on October 7, 2013, setting a new record for contemporary Asian artwork. In 1998, modern artist Vik Muniz displayed a recreation of "The Last Supper", made entirely out of Bosco Chocolate Syrup. Author Mary Shelley describes her impression of the painting in her travel narrative, "Rambles in Germany and Italy" published in 1844: In Luis Buñuel's Spanish film "Viridiana", a "tableau vivant" of Leonardo's painting is staged with beggars. Another beggar 'photographs' the scene by flashing them. This scene