“Faded as it is, damaged as it is, it still almost moves me to tears that it survives.”
Thomas P. Campbell on the sixteenth-century tapestry The Last Supper.
Breakthrough
Thomas P. Campbell
2 min. watch
Contributors
Thomas P. Campbell
Former Director and CEO
Former Director and CEO
Photography by Peter Zeray
Art Mentioned
Designed by Bernard van Orley
Probably woven by Pieter de Pannemaker
ca. 1525–28
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