{"id":562,"date":"2025-08-31T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=562"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:18:37","slug":"the-last-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"The Last Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last supper is a painting by\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci, painted from\u20091495 to 1498 and is located in\u00a0of the Convent of\u00a0Santa Maria delle Grazie\u00a0in\u00a0Milan, Italy. I had already got flights to Milan before I even knew that the painting was here and, as such, I had great difficulty getting tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most tickets seem to sell out months in advance, but I would suggest continuing to try each day as some people (most likely travel agents) cancel and the tickets become available again. I did manage to acquire one ticket about a week before I flew into Milan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santa Maria delle Grazie. You can tour the main chapel and the garden for free but you need a ticket to see the painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once you have a ticket you need to show up at least 30 minutes in advance to get your ticket validated and then return 10 minutes before to line up. The picture is housed in the refectory and it’s a fairy basic room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lights and temperature are controlled in the room to attempt to maintain the painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the tickets are so restricted there is not a huge crowd like for some attractions in Italy. There are still around 50 people at a time and you are allowed around 15 minutes to see the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a fairly small room but you get a chance to get the front eventually<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the other end of the room, and on the way out is a painting of the cruxification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last supper is a painting by\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci, painted from\u20091495 to 1498 and is located in\u00a0of the Convent of\u00a0Santa Maria delle Grazie\u00a0in\u00a0Milan, Italy. I had already got flights to Milan before I even knew that the painting was here … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}