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Leonardo da Vinci
Self-portrait, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1517ā18; in the Royal Library, Turin, Italy.
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper in the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.123
Commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, the work was created between approximately 1495 and 1498. Leonardo chose to paint the mural on the refectory wall using an experimental technique involving tempera or oil paint on dry ground, rather than the traditional buon fresco method.132