Eternal Gardens Journal

Da Vinci Notes 06: The Last Supper, Perspective on a Wall

A painted room can be true from one point only, and the friars sit along sixty braccia of floor. I drive a nail into the head of Christ and snap the strings.

How Leonardo set the Last Supper's vanishing point high above the friars, drew its room with a nail and strings, and why his dry-wall paint began to fail.

Leonardo da Vinci · November 8, 2026 · 28 min