Leonardo's Last Supper

For leonardo, the commission was less than exciting for us. The work is known as the last supper. Frescoes were a medium and his mentor, veracio, had never used or taugt it required that paint be applied to wet plaster in order to remain fixed. For the last supper, leonardo experimented with a new method. He painted directly on the dry plaster wall, which he coated with a layer of white lead primer. By mixing water base and oil base pigments, he hoped to add layer after layer of subtle strokes,. building them up over weeks to create the shapes and tones he wanted. It was a logical approach for an artist notorious for working,