The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) contributed to its refusal by the Vatican who called it "blasphemous." In Norman Jewison's 1973 film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar", in the Last Supper sequence, Jesus and the 12 apostles briefly mimic the posture of each character in Da Vinci's painting The painting is parodied in Mel Brooks's movie "History of the World, Part I", making Leonardo a contemporary of Jesus. It is also parodied in the original movie "MASH", in the scene where Hawkeye Pierce stages a "last supper" for Walt (Painless) Waldowski before his planned suicide. The various doctors, all in surgical scrubs, pose in imitation of
Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci by the city and by the Da Vinci family. The exhibition areas are temporarily closed due to rainwater infiltration from the overlying building, and are awaiting re-opening, planned for 2019. Started in 1972 as a collection in progress of different, ancient and modern items, relating to Leonardo, the ethno-anthropological territory of Vinci and contemporary art that engages with Leonardo, it was designed to addemble sets of artworks, artifacts and documentary materials. The collection includes original antique paintings from the school of Leonardo, tools and instruments of his time and of his native land, rare engravings (including "Knots" dating 1506-8 by