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 and in Budapest, in 1991. It also created the first CD-Rom dedicated to da Vinci, "Leonardo. The digital painting" (ACTA, 1989). The Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci, in its role as a site of research, philological enquiry and creativity, pursues, among others, three major objectives: The museum is located in the Gallery that - with the Ancient Cellar of the Castle - housed a forerunner "Wine Museum" in the 19th century. This is recorded by Giuseppe Garibaldi's memories dated July- August 1868, where it is called "Museum Masetti" because it was part of the ownership of the counts Masetti da