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The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena) is a wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, created between 1495 and 1498 on the dining hall wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan. This work is a monumental artistic endeavor that unites Renaissance understandings of the human figure, spatial construction, and the use of perspective. One of the fundamental narratives of Christian iconography—the “announcement of betrayal”—is transformed in this painting into a psychological