Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Completion of Replica of The Last Supper Mosaic

Engraver:
Oswald Steinbock
Year:
1847
Country:
Austria
Diameter:
50 mm
Obverse:
Conjoined wreathed busts of the Emperors Francis I and Ferdinand I of Austria facing left.
FRANCISCO. I. AVG. FERDINANDO. I. AVG.
O. STEINBOCK. F.
Reverse:
The northern wall of the Minoritenkirche with the mosaic copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper". The copy was carried out by Giacomo Raffaelli.
SODALITAS. MARIALIVM. MVSIVO. IMPERATO.
MDCCCXLVII
O. ST. FET.
Wurzbach 2058; Hauser 120

There is a life-sized copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper on the northern wall of the Minoritenkirche church in Vienna, Austria. It is a mosaic made by the Roman mosaic artist Giacomo Raffaelli, commissioned by Napoleon I in 1809, but it was not finished before Napoleon's abdication. Francis II of Austria bought it, wanting to install it in the Belvedere in Vienna. As it was too large for the building, it was set up on the north wall of the church, where it remains to this day.