The Royal Academy of Arts With Google, scanned the copy of the painting The Last Supper, painted by Leonardo da Vinci’s students using the oil-on-canvas technique.
That copy of the painting The Last Supper, is in the possession of the Royal Academy of Arts, was made more to monkeys at the same time that Leonardo da Vinci painted the original, in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, between the years 1495 and 1498.
The downside of the original painting was the technique used by Leonardo da Vinci, because he made it in tempera and oil on a dry plaster wall. This technique is not the best to preserve the works, because over the years the original paint loses color and it is almost impossible to do a good restoration without damaging it.
Many restorers agree that over the years, that paint will eventually disappear.
But thanks to the fact that there is an exact copy of the original painting, we can see details of the painting that have already been lost or that are very difficult to appreciate due to the damage of the work.
The Last Supper digitized in high resolution
Google digitized the copy of The Last Supper in high resolution, that way we can appreciate many details. Like objects that characters in the painting hold in their hands.
If you want to navigate between all the details of the copy of the painting of The Last Supper, you just have to go to the Google Arts & Culture page, and zoom in on any part of the painting.
If you get to do the 100% zoom you will see the cracks formed by the oil paint.
Seeing the presentation of the digitized painting found on the Google Arts & Culture page, it made me remember the book The Da Vinci Code, a novel written by Dan Brown. I read the book around 2004, at the time it was a very good book, so much so that I became obsessed with painting The Last Supper.
When I went to the page to look at the high resolution digitized copy, I immediately went to see if I could find the letter “V” and the letter “M”. Which according to Dan Brown, is supposed to be hidden in the painting. –Those who read the book will understand me-.