This publication is a visual walkthrough on the facsimile of Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper produced by Factum Arte for Peter Greenaway's Visions project.

The photography used to create the facsimile works with a resolution never obtained before, creating the largest reproduction of Leonardo's fresco to date. Each and every page reveals details that only restorers have had the possibility of discovering, nuances that no one except them and Leonardo had seen. A unique book in this sense, it allows readers to get extremely close to the fresco.

"It is widely believed that if da Vinci, bold, risk-taking investigator par excellence, were alive today, he would be abreast of the latest visual technologies and push their limits with great experimental vigor. Anticipating sound and movement in his painting, and certainly all the extreme potentials of lighting, an investigation into the continuity and correspondence between the language of painting and the language of cinema would have been obligatory for him. With due modesty, we have attempted some of the paths he might have taken to further arouse and stimulate awe, intellectual response, and spiritual experience with the profound moment of the Last Supper and all it prophesized and represented.

As a presentiment of the events involving light, sound, and projection in the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie as well as in other places, this book proposes a to-scale representation of Leonardo’s monumental work that shines most movingly across five centuries."
Peter Greenaway

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