Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)

Santa Maria delle Grazie is a Dominican church in Milan. The church since 1980, standing on the List of World Heritage Site by UNESCO is particularly famous for having them Leonardo da Vinci in the years 1494 to 1498 created secco painting The Last Supper houses, located on the north wall of the refectory ( dining hall) is located.

History

Before the construction of the church was located on the site of a small chapel. The Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, I., Guiniforte Solari commissioned the construction of a Dominican monastery and an associated church. 1469 the monastery was built during the building of the church lasted longer. The new duke Ludovico Sforza decided to use the church as a burial place of the Sforza, and let apse and cloister rebuild that were completed in 1490. Researchers suspect that Donato Bramante built the apse, the circumstantial evidence is but just that he was staying at that time in Milan and is mentioned in connection with a marble delivery in the documents of the Church. The first burial in the church was for Ludovico's wife Beatrice d' Este.

Napoleon's occupation troops used the refectory as a temporarily stable. 1943 was the painting on the north wall of the refectory just a bomb attack that took only the south wall of the hall to collapse and the north wall spared.

Organ

The organ was built in 1965 by the organ builder Balbiani Vegezzi Bossi ( Milan ). The instrument has 41 stops on three manuals and pedal. The tracker action are electric.

• Couplers: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P, numerous sub-and Superoktavkoppeln.

Literary scene

Leo Perutz describes in his novel "The Judas of Leonardo " ( posthumous, 1959) in a fictional narrative, the search of Leonardo da Vinci for a model for the head of Judas to complete the mural.