This choice meant that the painting hasn't fared as well as it should; the paint was already beginning to flake by 1517, less than 20 years after completion! 6. The Last Supper – Leonardo Da ...

The acclaimed filmmaker behind the PBS documentary on the 15th century Italian artist and intellectual calls Leonardo da ...

Renowned artist Leonardo da Vinci’s portrayal of the Last Supper is one of the most celebrated and iconic paintings in the world. But a historical expert has recently pointed out what he claims ...

Secco paintings, among them Leonardo's Last Supper, were painted onto a dry, polished, lime-based render (made from inorganic binders such as lime, mud, and gypsum) and a primer. Frescoes ...

The Last Supper in the Royal Gallery is the latest ... It is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery. Earlier this week Just Stop Oil allegedly targeted a Scottish art gallery ...

and last but not least, painting. All of Beksiński’s paintings are untitled – he wanted to avoid any metaphorical interpretation of his paintings. As an artist, Beksiński was fascinated with death, ...

Picture: Getty ‘The Last Supper’ was described by art historian Kenneth Clark as perhaps ... Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling in 1508. The artist spent the next ...

His painted version of The Last Supper has also been donated, this time to St Mary's: "I have dedicated it to my dear wife who passed away twenty two months ago." He says of the finished painting ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

Curator Patrick Kahn’s health battle makes “Earth’s Last Picture” poignantly personal for artist Dan Hess, who thinks of Kahn ...

But it remained for an extraordinarily forceful young artist named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to ascend that decaying stage and transform shimmer and shadow into one last dramatic moment for ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding ...