Andy Warhol’s 1986 Last Supper series reinterpreted Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper.
Warhol based the series on reproductions of Leonardo’s mural showing Jesus and the apostles at the final meal before the Crucifixion. He translated the familiar religious image into repeated, enlarged, and altered compositions, bringing a canonical Renaissance subject into the visual language of modern mass reproduction.
The series was among Warhol’s major late projects and was connected with an exhibition in Milan, the city where Leonardo’s mural is located. Its scale and subject differ from the celebrity portraits that made Warhol famous, but the method remains recognizably his: an image already known to millions is transformed through repetition and graphic treatment.
The work is sometimes confused with Warhol’s earlier religious imagery or with Leonardo’s other famous paintings. The source here is specifically The Last Supper, not the Mona Lisa.