Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, Italy, best known because its refectory contains Leonardo da Vinci's mural The Last Supper. The church was begun in the second half of the fifteenth century in a late Gothic style, and then the duke Ludovico Sforza, who intended it to be the family mausoleum, had the architect Donato Bramante rebuild the east end with a large Renaissance tribune. Leonardo painted The Last Supper there in the 1490s. The church was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1943, but the wall holding the painting survived, protected by sandbags. The complex was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1980.
Before and after
- from 14th century to 16th centuryRise of Devotio Moderna
- 1400Birth of Johannes Gutenberg
- c. 1400sThe moa are hunted to extinction in New Zealand
- 25 October 1400Death of Geoffrey Chaucer
- 15th centuryConstruction of Santa Maria delle Grazie
- 1402Construction of Charles Bridge
- 1402Construction of Seville Cathedral
- from 1402 to 1976Spanish Empire
- from 20 July 1402 to 5 July 1413Ottoman Interregnum
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- 1373Construction of Leaning Tower of Pisa
The era
This moment belongs to the Medieval world (500 CE to 1500 CE), kingdoms, faiths and trade routes.