The Last Supper

The mosaic mural of the Last Supper for St. Peter's Cathedral in Peterborough, Ontario, was created under the direction of Alex von Svoboda, using Smalti mosaic (a form of glass now only produced in Italy by a limited number of manufacturers) and is one of the largest murals of its kind in Canada. The mural took one and a half years from initial colour renderings, through the actual selection of the mosaic in Europe by von Svoboda, to the installation date.

The mural measures 25 feet in width and stands approximately 42 feet high. The individual mosaic pieces were glued to 3/4" x 4'0" x 8'0" plywood panels with 3M adhesive cement. There are thirty-one of these panels which make up the mural. All individually cut and formed to fit the existing arch. Calculated at six hundred pieces of mosaic per square foot, a total of 633,600 pieces of hand cut and placed mosaic tessarae were used.