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Ross King – Leonardo’s Last Supper
19th June 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ross King is the author of numerous books on Italian and French art and history, including Leonardo and The Last Supper. Although the painting is one of the most famous in the history of art, how this famous mural came to be painted is much less well-known.
This illustrated lecture will recount how Leonardo received the commission (for whose execution he had little experience and even less inclination) from Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and how he went about creating his masterpiece through an experimental new style. While the mural is burdened with many myths – most of which have no basis in fact – the true story of its execution is even more remarkable and interesting.