‘Last Supper’ Back on Display

Hundreds of tourists lined up outside Milan’s Santa Maria della Grazie church today as Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “Last Supper” was reopened to the public on a restricted basis.

The painting had been closed to the public for two months while officials studied ways of protecting the tempera painting from pollution. Only groups of 15 at a time were allowed inside in an effort to reduce pollution effects on the fading mural, completed in 1497.