Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper

A picture universally recognized, endlessly scrutinized and described, incessantly copied, adapted, lampooned: does Leonardo’s near-ruined Last Supper still offer anything new to be seen or to be said? This book is a resounding Yes to both questions. With direct perception — and with attention paid to the work of earlier scholars and to the criticism embodied in the production of copyists over the past five hundred years — Steinberg demonstrates that Leonardo’s mural has been consistently o...