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Investigating Mary Magdalen

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Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

John or Mary Magdalen in Leonardo's Last Supper?

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498
Mixed technique, 460 x 880 cm
Refectory, Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Leonardo, Last Supper, detail of left portion, with purported image of Mary Magdalen (on right)

Leonardo, Last Supper, detail of the face of John, or is it Mary Magdalen?

IMAGE SOURCE: www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/504271_john.html

    See also the Image of John (or Mary Magdalen?) before, during, and after the recent restorations of the painting, reproduced in Leonardo, Last Supper (2001) by Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani