place. there is little doubt that's a lot rio was a favorite of the dumb was family and $1507.00 even painted a portrait of george's nephew charlotte down was charlotte was none other than the governor of milan at that time but given the short time frame in which the copy was finished between 15071509 is likely that not only saw a lottery but also other later nordo pupils were involved including for example. but here's the next question where is this campus after all if it's as big as we think it is it's not something you would lose very easily and that's why we find ourselves on the train to antwerp in belgium to follow the next trail of plums.

we usually think of and for prez the city of rubens painter of the baroque but even in the early renaissance and for it was a very important city primarily because it served as the major port of the low countries. but things started to change in the early 16th century primarily as a result of the growing tensions between the protestant north and the catholic south which ultimately produced the 80 years war. this is when the catholic church looked for every which way to defend the faith and the low countries and founded in this abbey the abbey of total. now what i think is so interesting is that dutch calvinism reject. all forms of

religious imagery paintings sculpture even stained glass it was all torn down and destroyed i think that's why the abbot of total world decided he should get the biggest pain to know christ and his apostles he could find to deter the north and give a boost to the catholic faithful in the sun. reportedly this painting needs to exists in a small chapel on the grounds of this very concrete. and. oh my god. there it is again yes of the same thing we've been looking for all these weeks. it is magnificent.

so the painting was brought to bear and just in that specific moment the abbot of tongue good little has asked somebody to look off to the beautiful great. painting religious pay for the new abbey church he wrote a letter to the abbot. this the last supper of leonardo da vinci that was sold on the 2nd of february in 5845 it's oh the painting was actually presented and sold. a product of lived out a living just painted by leo a lot of the while it was in those days it was not that important but probably. 90 percent of the painting is the work of. a disciple spielberg self of kenya

tell me about this theory of who painted christ and seeing just well. you know but i believe. lady who has been restoring for 22 years the origin of fresco in milan. she said this is a work of a group. of if you. please disciples of. but he said i'm convinced that christ is and specially also the apostle of sin john your favorite model of that means he has been painted by himself by a lot of them yeah. why is that it's well it's a quality the quality of your when you look at painting you see that in john this. is very nice it's exceptional quality and very very about

i dey also make x. rays of some 20 years ago. under dig up austin schedule exact for st john christ you're telling me that there are there is an under drawing under all of the apostles yeah except for john and cross that is painted directly on the campus that was that has held off. of the x. rays that is an astonishing discovery. so we might conclude that even though the apostles may have been painted by his pupils and living perhaps on various celeriac that lay not only himself painted christ and since the most important figures on the on the last supper pretty yeah yeah and that was so it's they both painting as a work. that's fascinating that's fascinating it is a beautiful work but is this the painting that pin louis to 12 ordered from

leonardo in 1507 and that 100 or so laurie you brought to france and 1509. fortunately the abbey has an extensive archive going back many hundreds of years and here we find in this punishing eyewitness account. that for same cause hunt and jewel it is said that the painting is made after an original painted on a wall that is now a bad past. when the king of france who conquered milan so all the painting he was very disappointed that he could not take it with him since it was painted a whole wall and so he gave the order to have a copy mandate and that's the copy that hangs in the choir today so what we have here is an eyewitness document from the 16th century that confirms our theory that louis did 12 ordered

a copy of the last supper from leonardo da vinci and the. this painting now hangs on the wall of this beautiful abbey in belgium. but then the plot thickens once more as we saw such a large canvas could not have been paid by just one artist such a small time frame so who would have painted on the bend and various solaria the most likely candidate is an italian artist called jump you team for as we will discover in london he went on to make a 2nd call. for 250 years the royal academy of burlington house in london has been training generations of british artists by drawing inspiration from the work of the great masters. so we're sitting here in the library which very much relates to the

training of the artists these were all what we called materials for artists to inspire them for them to look at when did the world economy acquire the copy of the last supper and why did they acquired so it was 1821 the academy bullshit the 600 guineas which then was a lot of money as a sort of comparison in 1820 the national got a report every old titian just over $300.00 pounds so to spend $600.00 pounds on what was a copy was an immense amount of money so they had to gather all the artists to gether they will have to vote on it and agreed that this was a good purchase it was this extraordinary example of leonardo's work i mean it's a copy i think it was seen as a real window into the sort of achievements of leonardo and to have in the schools for the artist the students to look at was was an amazing isn't it by leonardo that

refers to a john pitt who we think is probably the same person. we know that a figure more or less of this name is working in milan from at least around 1507 so in that 2nd period after leonardo has been back to florence and has then returned to milan and would you agree that he's probably the one of the principal organs from the copy of the world yes so that's very much the current line of thinking although true morani has recently going back to the technical drawings underpinning this work and has a few technical analysis of the under drawings of the work has asserted that in fact it's probably all tracking his hand initially and then jam petrina coming in as a secondary hand. if it's true that jump you 3 know worked on both the tunnel over asia and then later around $1520.00 on this copy it would seem that between these 2 paintings we would have a very accurate sense of what the original fresco once looked like.

my face the scale of it it is it does appear to be very very close to the original and for me means heads that we can investigate further seemed to be very close to regional book traffic and champion train office he had access to be an art is crawling with cartoons and i think that's possibly evidence that there may have been putting out all tracing all you know from these original cartoon and say you know this is really interesting that the basis may be kind of evil closer than we originally thought. not that we found not one but 2 live sized versions of the last supper by leonardo and his top pupils do we have long last have a key to see what the fresco and milan truly look like. the last supper

a painting that would go on to transform the course of western art could anyone in the 49 years haven't dissipated the tremendous impact that this fresco would have he would have been told by the look of eco and the trier of sentimental look at see the would last supper and they probably would have expected he would have done the last supper they came to all of those that have been done primarily in florence in tuscany scieno for the previous 200 years but laid out of course did not work like that and he did say that the way to make a painting was not to look at other paintings it was to look at real life and so i think what he wanted to do with why he thought viable was find the drama in the story was almost like he. was the director of a film that he was given of grief this is the film you're going to make we're going to make a film of the last supper. wanted action and he also wanted the emotion and the dramatic intensity of what happened in those seconds in jerusalem and not of course

is one of the magnificent things about the painting that he brings that to life and we see that and instantly i think we can understand what's happening there 3 paintings and yet one vision a vision of depicting the most familiar scene from the gospels in a way that had never been done before. and now we know what that original vision once looked like thanks to a canvas and the remote convent in belgium of course in the years to come the high renaissance would produce some of the most memorable frescoes in history including raw files stones and the vatican and michelangelo's immortal sealing of the sistine chapel but all that incredible realism all that monumental grasp of the human figure 1st started with a for us to go on the wall of

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