Das Abendmahl des Leonardo da Vinci

In Italy, and especially in Tuscany, the Last Supper has served as a regular theme for refectory pictures - the monks' daily meal serving as a remembrance and imitation of the sacred meal, which is at the same time a promise- bread and wine as the body and blood of the Lord "shed for many for the remission of sins". Representations of the Last Supper have been bound up in oriental and western art since the ninth century with the announcement of the betrayal. But the betrayal is a secondary ...