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Breakthrough

Thomas P. Campbell
2 min. watch

“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.

Contributors

Thomas P. Campbell
Former Director and CEO

Photography by Peter Zeray

Art Mentioned

The Last Supper, Bernard van Orley Netherlandish, Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread.
The Last Supper
Designed by Bernard van Orley
Probably woven by Pieter de Pannemaker
ca. 1525–28

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