Leonardo’s The Last Supper is located in Milan, Italy.
The mural occupies the north wall of the refectory at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in central Milan. Leonardo painted it for the Sforza court during the 1490s, when Milan was one of the major political and artistic centers of Renaissance Italy.
The setting was not chosen by accident. Ludovico Sforza was renovating Santa Maria delle Grazie and intended the church complex to serve as a Sforza family mausoleum. The painting was therefore part of a larger architectural and dynastic project, not an isolated commission for a private home.
Milan’s damp conditions and the wall’s construction contributed to the mural’s rapid deterioration. Leonardo used tempera over a prepared surface instead of reliable wet fresco, allowing revisions but making the work especially vulnerable. Today, visits are tightly controlled to protect the surviving paint.