A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third-the picture of the Last Supper at Milan-has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description.

几乎所有达芬奇最著名的作品的命运都被一种奇怪的命运所左右。三幅最重要的作品中有两幅从未完成，因为在他生前出现了一些障碍，使他不得不把它们留在原地；即《斯福尔扎纪念碑》和《安吉亚里战役壁画》，而第三幅作品--《米兰最后的晚餐》--由于腐烂和在第十七和第十八世纪不顾一切地反复修复，受到了无法弥补的伤害。尽管如此，文艺复兴时期的其他画作都没有通过各种形式的复制而变得如此知名和流行。