Conservation-restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper until 1498. The scene is understood to depict the Bible verse John 13:22, showing the reactions of the Twelve Disciples, at the Last Supper, in the moments following Jesus’s announcement that one among them will betray him. When he received the commission for "The Last Supper", Leonardo da Vinci had never worked on a piece of this great a size, fifteen feet high by almost twenty-nine feet wide. He also had very limited experience working in the technique known as fresco, mixing pigment into wet plaster to create a permanent bond. Traditionally, fresco painters put down many successive layers of
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (, "Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci", in literal translation) is the second novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published in 1900 by "Mir Bozhy" magazine, then released as a separate edition 1901. The novel constitutes the second part of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy (1895-1907), started by the writer's debut novel "The Death of the Gods". Merezhkovsky started working upon the second novel right after the first one, "The Death of Gods", was finished, submerging himself in studying the history of Renaissance. By this time he had the vision