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Leonardo the Last Supper

by Pietro C. Marani

  • ISBN: 9780226504278
  • ISBN10: 0226504271

Leonardo the Last Supper

by Pietro C. Marani

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
  • Publish date: 02/01/2001
  • ISBN: 9780226504278
  • ISBN10: 0226504271
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Description: Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained to Leonardo that the work was taking too long, the Last Supper has endured centuries of controversy, neglect, and difficulty. Leonardo, The Last Supper, translated from the Italian, is the definitive document of the recently completed project to reverse these centuries of decline by restoring the painting and preserving it in a manner that generations of conservators have failed to do.

The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers as well as Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration.

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