Santa Maria delle Grazie is a late-15th-century church. The great architects of the High Renaissance, Donato Bramante (one of the first architects of St. Peter's in Rome) is involved in its architecture.
Admission is free.
As for Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper", it is located in a building besides the church. You will have to go around the church to see a yellow building.
Tip: It is better to buy the tickets online EARLY if you really want to see "The Last Supper". Although tickets are released 3 months in advance, they always seem to be sold out. Alternatively, you can follow my footsteps to check everyday for a suitable opening. I suspect they usually allocate for booking tours and if the places are not filled up closer to the date, these places will be released for public reservations.
Get it online via http://www.vivaticket.it/evento.php?id_evento=298097&op=cenacoloVinciano
Admission Fee: €6.50 plus €1.50 booking fee
How to go: Take Metro 1 – Conciliazione or Metro 2 - Cadorna
More about "The Last Supper" (1495-97)
It is in a permanent process of restoration, due to its state of decay of which nobody is sure if the next time they return, it will still be in a good shape. A large part of the blame lies with Leonardo da Vinci himself of course for choosing to complete his masterpiece with oil paint (a far less reliable medium in Renaissance times than today) rather than with the fast-drying and stable watercolour fresco technique. Within five years the painting was crumbling.
Two hundred years later, Napoleon’s troops were using the wall and painting for target practice. Then the Second World War bomb flattened most of Santa Maria, leaving only the wall bearing Leonardo’s painting. This perhaps is a miracle.
Despite Leonardo's carefully preserved preparatory sketches in which the apostles are clearly labeled by name, there still remains some small debate about a few identities in the final arrangement. Most notably, is novelist Dan Brown claims in The Da Vinci Code that the figure on Jesus' right is not John the Apostle, but Mary Magdalene. Dan Brown also claims that Peter is making a threatening gesture towards "Mary," representing a fierce battle between the two figures in the early church. This was rebuffed by most art historians as St. John is commonly represented with feminine features and there is no reason to think the figure is Mary.
Whatever the case, there can be no mistaking Judas, small and dark, his hand calmly reaching forward to the bread, isolated from the terrible confusion that has taken the hearts of the others.
More about "The Crucifixion"
It is located across The Last Supper on the southern wall and painted by Donato Montorfano.
Source: Wiki - "The Last Supper"
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