1. Last Supper:Most famous dinner party of all time

2. Final meal of Jesus

3. No firsthand reports of the Last Supper

4. Leonardo da Vinci(1452–1519)

5. Moment of betrayal Santa Maria delle Grazie restored

6. seder

7. Elaborating historical texts

8. tablecloth was “so cunningly depicted that the linen itself could not look more realistic”

9. Restoration:fresh insights into nearly every section of the composition

10. Jerusalem, Italy?

11. I’ll have an orange to go with that grilled eel…..

12. Leonardo’s last supper?

13. “Honey, don’t forget the bag of oranges and some eels!”:Leonardo’s grocery receipts

14. Eels enhance the realism of the representation

15. orange slices & fish a popular fad

16. Downplay transubstantiation (the moment when Christ transforms bread and wine into the Eucharist) in order to concentrate on His surprising announcement of apostolic betrayal

17. Menu suits Renaissance tastes