Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ reopens to public with short wait
Milan, ItalyAP COVID-19 restrictions have brought a novelty to art lovers: The possibility of seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper without waiting in line, and with same-day tickets possible. Access to the masterpiece housed inside the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie resumed Tuesday after the second closure of the pandemic, starting […]
Italian police find stolen copy of Leonardo ‘Salvator Mundi’
Rome, Italy AP Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century Salvator Mundi painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic without the priests even realising it was gone. The discovery was made when Naples police working on a bigger operation found the painting […]
ESSAY: WHAT LEONARDO’S DEPICTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JESUS TELLS US ABOUT HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Ahead of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci on 2nd May, DIANE APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA, of Georgetown University in the US, writes in an an article first published on The Conversation about what his art says of his religious beliefs…
GREAT WORKS: ‘THE LAST SUPPER’
In the first of a new column looking at how great works of art celebrate the Christian faith, DAVID ADAMS takes a brief look at Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper…