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
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