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A late fifteenth-century Dominican church and convent in central Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie is best known as the home of Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper, painted on the wall of the convent refectory between 1495 and 1498. The combined site of church and refectory has been inscribed since 1980 on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is one of the most important Renaissance buildings in Lombardy. The church was begun in 1463 by the Dominicans to designs by the architect Guiniforte Solari, with a...