‘Last Supper’ Back on Display

MILAN, Italy — Hundreds of tourists lined up outside Milan’s Santa Maria della Grazie church today as Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “Last Supper” was reopened to the public on a restricted basis.

The painting had been closed to the public for two months while officials studied ways of protecting the tempera painting from pollution. Only groups of 15 at a time were allowed inside in an effort to reduce pollution effects on the fading mural, completed in 1497.