User:Jodon1971/Last Supper Reproductions

Replicas, or more accurately reproductions, of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, were begun in Leonardo's own lifetime, and still continue to this day.

The original painting was and is acclaimed as a masterpiece of design and characterisation, but during Leonardo's lifetime it already started to deteriorate, so that within a hundred years it was described by one viewer as "completely ruined". Leonardo, instead of using the reliable technique of fresco, had used tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso, resulting in a surface which was subject to mold and to flaking. Despite this, the painting has remained one of the most reproduced works of art, countless copies being made in every medium from carpets to cameos.

Paintings

 * Giampietrino (active 1508-1549), after Leonardo da Vinci, oil on canvas, currently in the collection of The Royal Academy of Arts, London; an accurate, full-scale copy that was the main source for the twenty-year restoration of the original (1978-1998). It includes several lost details such as Christ's feet and the salt cellar spilled by Judas. Giampietrino is thought to have worked closely with Leonardo when he was in Milan.

Engravings

 * Raffaello Sanzio Morghen after Teodoro Matteini's drawing. Uffizi Gallery?

Drawings

 * Teodoro Matteini

In Film

 * The Life of Leonardo da Vinci - a 1971 Italian made miniseries, in which a (smaller than the original) mural is made for the purposes of the film.