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to prevent bacteria. use the water and see raw materials to avoid content. producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases including by applying the 5 keys to seafood to use them you also have a role to play. this is news and these are our top stories and jordan is a former crown prince has said he is under house arrest in a video passed on to the b.b.c. prince homes have been hussein accuses the country's leaders of corruption and says anybody who criticizes them risks our arrest jordan's top general denied prince homs that had been arrested but said he was asked to halt actions targeting the
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country's quote security and stability. and german president a friend is making a rare appeal for national unity this easter weekend steinmeier is asking germans to set aside a crisis of trust in the government there is growing frustration as corona virus infections rise just like months of restrictions on daily life. $22.00 ancient royal mummies have paraded along the streets of egypt's capital cairo in an effort to draw global attention to the country's wealth of antiquities the lavish spectacle saw 18 former kings and queens transported from a museum to their new resting place 5 kilometers away. this is deja vu news coming to you from berlin you can follow us on twitter and facebook or you can visit our website at d.w. dot com.
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this week on world stories in russia the kremlin takes aim at tick tock and confronting racism in germany's catholic church but we begin in turkey where on kora has set a goal of vaccinating 60 percent of its population against coronavirus by autumn which means reaching the more remote parts of the country. almost 2000 meters high up in the mountains lies the village of alton that is in eastern turkey a few 100 residents one street. and this is the doctor in charge of the coronavirus vaccinations here in the village. they nip out and her team come regularly many home visits
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require some serious climbing but they're almost used to it now. no coronavirus cases have been reported in 4 months that's why some residents are skeptical about the doctor's visit but they know better out of this convinced that her commitment is important. that people in the villages live close together if there is an infection here it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. or are. getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost keep them out. i was afraid at 1st here in the village they said the doctors were coming to kill the old people or the elderly die from the vaccination i heard and because of that we were
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scared a lot of other boiling over. they never knows that there is a lot of false information floating around she and her team often tell patients that they themselves have been vaccinated as have their grandparents. that doesn't convince everyone but it did convince ali kazak. your knowledge of geography i hardly felt anything it didn't hurt at all less than a bee sting. of your. in. our adventure team have given the last vaccination for today the way back to their car is once again perilous. the doctors are responsible for 20 villages and as long as there are doses they won't run out of work any time soon.
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tick talk is one of the most popular social media platforms in russia but since users have taken to posting increasing numbers of political videos the kremlin has begun to take notice. time could be ticking for these bloggers the unlikely new enemy for the kremlin. the social network is mostly about entertainment with videos of cranks and downs. but this month at a meeting with the police russian president vladimir putin made it clear he wants the authorities to be watching anyway. the muslim. unfortunately we all know what the internet is and how it is used to promote unacceptable content it's critical for you to unite with other government agencies in order to monitor the web and be more proactive in identifying people who are dragging minors into committing
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illegal actions the fact that minors are being dragged into illegal on authorised street protests as well is of course a violation of the law. to talk in particular has been on the authorities radar since the return of opposition politician aleksey not by me to russia his arrest in january caused a wave of opposition protests across the country and a sudden explosion of politics on tick tock. teenagers filmed themselves at schools replacing portraits of putin. with portraits of. another tick talk trend was videos of teens getting ready to protest and telling their parents they might get arrested. russia's media watchdog responded by calling on to talk to block videos calling for unauthorized protests and last week threatened to block social networks completely if they don't comply with russian laws. but these moscow
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tip talkers want to keep dancing to their own tune without thinking about politics every week the bloggers meet at the so-called talk house with their producers to consult about their accounts and collaborate with each other to stay on trend talkers like that i need of a film $2.00 to $3.00 videos a day the 17 year old thinks the videos about politics were just a short lived trend. too much politics on tech talk i went on there during the protests and there was none of the usual content in my feed. blog. also says she doesn't want to talk to become a political platform. talk is a social media platform for self-expression there's so much negative stuff around us already on state television and so on but being neutral may soon no longer be possible according to my potential he's one of the owners of the p.r.
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agency promoting these bloggers. most bloggers are not for bush and are against him they're just doing their thing but when they're told they're freaks when they're stigmatized these bloggers start feeling they're outsiders in this country and that's what makes them feel angry at the government. for now these 2 talkers are steering clear of politics but even they know that the kremlin will be watching closely if they ever get out of step. in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo and islamised militia known as the a.d.f. has been terrorizing local inhabitants un peacekeepers are charged with protecting them but is it working. it feels a bit odd to move in an armored vehicle like this while people outside seem to live
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a normal everyday life but the impression is deceptive this area is dangerous attacks happen almost on a daily basis the islamist militia a.t.f. has carried out repeated massacres killing more than 500 people in the 2nd half of 2020 with the u.n. troops we visit a clinic in my that has been targeted by a.t.f. in the past. as the director here he's witnessed gruesome attacks. of the militias slaughters people and when you see the animosity they have to kill these people how they cut of the heads you find the brains scattered all over they head off feet that leaves you with fear and traumatizes your heart. in one incident the islamists tried to kidnap 4 of his nurses. they found them in the waiting room and took them hostage once people realized it was i.d.f.
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they were very afraid but then the militia said they won't kill them they said it is not a day to kill. because of the constant threat the clinic is only open for a few hours in the morning women and children struggle to get the medical care they need a father with whom we cannot go and have a can of corn from they have to stay at home the cannot move children cannot go to school was a woman cannot come to the clinic that is where the villagers have experienced a lot but many are reluctant to speak to us the local population is in a tight corner some of their sons and daughters have joined a.t.f. and often provide them with food but in return the villagers have to cooperate and provide the militia group with information or risk getting killed. and sometimes we are happy and sometimes we are afraid because they can come today or tomorrow they have now become our everyday people. just when we were about to leave
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a man wants to speak to us out of fear he doesn't want to be named. as the government should help all of the international community should help our government to deal with this phenomenon that has made a lot of people suffer a.t.f. should be finished finished finished. his frustration as possible and sums up what many people here told us off camera their feeling is they're being brutally massacred while the outside world needs to act. everybody you supposed to be welcome in the catholic church including refugees and migrants but sometimes members of a congregation may be exposed to racism even the clergy d.w. spoke with a priest from cologne. i do something i experienced again and again when i'm out and about in different church communities it is that the 1st question is always where do you come from and i always say i'm from noise germany and then there is
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silence figure me to line a town it's a catholic pastor in the archdiocese of cologne apparently many people in germany still find it a little strange when they encounter a minister who is not white to line up time is repeatedly asked about his origins or is and salted with racist slurs as well from catholic and park at leipsic. if it was at the catholic convention and leipsic i was representing the archdiocese and i can still remember standing at the booth when 2 women approached the booth which i went to watch them in a friendly manner and put them wellcome. them and then one woman said which do gooder let you into the country without any emotion whatsoever rachel would see them and stop to listen. elana town is mostly concerned by 2 things and the catholic church in germany it's too white and too euro centric the same for them it
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does feel them in the dutch into it again it starts with the fact that many teachers of german theology don't even take into account all the other theological points of view in the world it's only fashionable or to be taken seriously from a scientific angle when it comes from the german speaking world and that's where the difficulties begin when you think you're the only one who is capable of interpret in the world or the lab is the way. this is. the 38 year old is responsible for new trainees in his diocese he advises and supervisors theology students or those looking to serve in the church for whom he provides rooms in his apartment to learn at times even spoke to pope francis about his vision of a more cosmopolitan church that allows more space for global perspectives and less racism. at which it was dished. he encouraged me to
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the last supper by leonardo da vinci when it was 1st shown in 1499 they created shock waves through italy and beyond changing the world of art for ever but a 20 year restoration effort has revealed the awful truth of the original fresco only some 20 percent is still visible simply put we can no longer seen or understand why this painted had such a devastating impact. or can only. this
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is the incredible story of a hope across europe following a trail of clues and documents hidden for centuries that suggests that lael argo and his workshop painted another last supper in a huge life size can't see but none other than the king of france does that painting still exist if so can it reveal the secrets of the original fresco. this is where the story starts to milan the most important fashion in business city in all of modern italy and in that sense not much has changed even in the 15th century milan was a bustling city filled with artists and musicians. of old a city states in italy. the duchy of milan was the most powerful the most exuberant
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and the wealthiest by far no wonder that many kings in europe wanted to conquer it to killie because the man in charge the juke named little because for itself was a tyrant who had ceased power in 14 he was and many other such rulers he was desperate to cloak his illegitimacy with this wonder of a renaissance court. the judge had many projects a monastery complex called it the tolls of the poppea and a new church building right here in milan called the sometime out a a delegate outside but the biggest project of all was this a massive cathedral deliberately designed to be the biggest church building in all of italy so naturally the city was a magnet for young artists and sculptors from all over the region. but while there
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none of them this artist wasn't from lombardy he was from florence the most exciting city in all of italy a wellspring of the renaissance what was he doing painting at fresco in milan. answer may be found in a small village outside of florence called vinci. lunar was a natural child the son of a farmer's daughter katherina who one day had a roll in the hay with a promising young notary cold said pierre of course marriage was out of the question a bright future awaited setio provided he married a wife from a prestigious family. that's why layer nardo was never truly part of the creative circles of florence around lorenzo the major with artists like betty gillan diet or mickey lands. these were folks who wrote latin sonnets and could hold
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their own and find society. there not it was never part of that. but said piero never forgot his son and was only he's ready to use his connections to help him get work but the lack of a proper education left young leonardo and a major disadvantage. instead he was apprenticed to the workshop of one of the most prolific artists of florence and that i am here here leonardo learned how to mix pigments prepare panels or transfer a large fresco drawings called cartoons to a plaster wall. and eventually for allowed him to paint one of the angels in his panel of the baptism of cries it's obvious that leonardo's angel is much more
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beautiful than the rather dour angel to the right painted by photo feel himself so how did he create such lovely and jelly faces the answer by using a new invention called oils as most of florence still use the flat collars of tempera paint which dries quickly layer nardo had begun to experiment with pigments mixed with oils the technique 1st developed in northern europe. advent that's oil prices extemporaneous that in order to create a 3 dimensional object you pretty much have to mix every single color that you put in there or crosshatch it so you get the feeling that the dimension but with oil you didn't have that problem you can have an incredible range from black to white hall most seamlessly sold this was a huge shift for for the artists and
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a renaissance good or a mayor is a classically trained artist who painted a life size re creation of the sistine chapel for the motion picture angels and the . and who are these oils many well they were ground up pigments that could be anything from bones to dry possibly to because famous ultimately in blue that came from afghanistan that was so expensive that it cost more than actual gold in its own weight my god more than gold yes it did. the 15th century to cooperate cento was a an exciting time to be in florence it was a time of rebirth the renaissance the revival of the ancient world and the arts science and literature and engineering here for example philippo brunelleschi used roman engineering to create this vast dome over
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the dew moment because the drill of florence while burlesque he was taking measurements of ancient temples in rome he had discovered that when you draw as street or a building all the horizontal lines seem to converge to a common center what today we call the vanishing point. the less he had discovered the laws of linear perspective it revolutionized the renaissance art suddenly painters could create in the lose. in the 3 dimensional space as if the image they painted was a window on another world. you know for us it's almost impossible to imagine the impact of this innovation why because today we are surrounded by simulated images full of billboards television cinema they have conditioned our brain to interpret flat images as 3 dimensional
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reality but in the middle ages men and women never had that experience before and so they must have been utterly amazed by a painting like this one. the crucifixion by massaging the 1st fresco in history to use linear perspective. people in those days most of thought it was some form of magic to see space rather was only a flat wall. leonardo was also trained in the magic of linear perspective in the workshop of his master vocal and he too was amazed by the possibilities but as he began his 1st major painting they are now realized that linear perspective had one major drawback. tended to see by fall the figures and inhibit their expressive power in many paintings the
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figures became like puppets fixed on a rigid grid 10 years later leonardo would write how to give you figures appeasing air. look about you. when you see a beautiful face remember its features and fix them in your mind. so what they are naruto is saying is don't let geometry deprive your characters of feelings of emotions of psychological drama and the 1st bold attempt to do just that as a painting that hangs right here in the all feeds it called the adoration of the magic. unfortunately the monks who commissioned a panel weren't interested in moving the boundaries of italian art they simply wanted a pretty picture of the native any that people could recognize and worship. and so
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the work was stopped and the painting remained unfinished it would take nearly 2 decades before layer nardo group realize his great vision he talked about wanting to create his work of fame he could see burning less piecework of fame he could see dotted telos works of fame and he wanted to create his own and so his destiny he felt lay with a large a large corps with a grand patron and a single person who was going to be writing the checks and that happened to be at the most powerful man and it'll lead me the 14 eighties and for the ninety's was the duke of milan lot of equals fortson and so that's why he went north in 1482 to begin working for someone who was in effect a prince and not just a group of monks that's why a layman are decided to turn his back on the forums and that's why he came here in milan filled with ambition not as an artist but as an engineer
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a military and had it even prepared and then press a pitch for the jew but the catalogue of all of us military towns. methods for destroying every fortress were strong and is built on a rock. i can also design different types of can which 100 stones and ball like a storm. leonardo's hopes came to look and it took several years for a joke little vico to finally noticed a florentine artist. but the project he gave him a huge equestrian statue ended in failure the only thing that remains of this massive project are his studies. live in our 2 was ready to tackle the
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greatest most ambitious composition of his young career a series of 13 live size portraits of men seated at a table for a wall in milan. how did the last supper project come about and who asked leonardo de painted. this may come as a surprise but you really don't know what we do know is that the jokes forts are tended to favor home grown artists like giovanna the month a funnel that may not have been particularly in magic attempt but they delivered their work on time and on budget like this fresco of st peter part of. what we do know is that the joke had chosen this church to become the pantheon of his dynasty. actually it was part of
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a dominican convent and the abbot white away saw as opportunity so he asked the joke if he would build him a new or factory place to have meals for the monks complete with frescos. a refectory was usually decorated with 2 paintings a last supper and a crucifixion of christ. the last supper illustrated the institution of the eucharist. whereas the crucifixion depicted the redemption of mankind to the suffering of jesus the 2 condor points of christian theology the 'd the most important for us go destined for the south wall was the crucifixion of christ this did you gave to giovanni dum want to fun know whose family had been working in the cathedral of milan for many decades. the end of the
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world but who was going to paint the north wall. lane out of the vinci up to this point but lay it out or had done other than the failed question project in the 2 small portraits was the production of plays in masks for the entertainment of the joke and his court. was he truly going to be given this monumental fresco by lane or was in effect a special effects man for the duke and so i i guess we would think of him as a sort of a combination set designer costume designer and special effects person for these spectaculars that lot of eco would have staged maybe a couple of times a year in the lion. that is why lou nordo was determined that with this fresco he was going to stomach the moment.
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and they probably would have been expecting that he would have done a last supper akin to all of those that have been done primarily in florence in tuscany sienna for the previous 200 years but of course he did something quite different and that archetype showed christ breaking bread thus establishing the 1st eucharist but like a skilled film director leonardo picked a far more dramatic see the moment when jesus the players that one of the men in the room is a traitor. that news literally explodes from the center and hits the apostles in various poses of shock disbelief sorrow even anger the full panoply of human emotions is laid bare the same idea that had galvanized his adoration of the manager some 25 years earlier leonardo wanted action and then he also wanted the emotion and the dramatic intensity of what happened in
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in those seconds in jerusalem and that 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 is that hold for techs of human drama that's right where everyone is react. differently they're asking each other there's evil credulity there's disbelief there's anger there is in the cases i like st john he just appears to be coming awake and there's being interrogated by st peter and so he does he takes each each of these 12 and gives them. some characteristic you know with facial expressions hand gestures things like that in order to take us into the character but here is the great tragedy most of these beautiful expressions are no longer visible today but i said metal is not.
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often the president has an emotional journey on to pick up on a technique because you haven't end up on that ad after ask book question the next plotted out without a cent to said especially don't add an ascended into. unlike want of fun or who used conventional fresco techniques leonardo could not resist experimenting with his pigments to try to create the same optical effects that he had pioneered with his or helping to use the result was catastrophic. i think the thing that's so interesting about him is that he's got different intellectual interests and so he's trying to achieve different goals with paint and he's asking different questions of them larry keith is the head of conservation and keeper at london's national gallery but also i think he really was instilled in exploring. nuances of tonal gradation all those kinds of distinctions that i think are really not
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possible to achieve in fact. in 1517 an influential cardinal named luigi dada grown and his secretary and tonio debate on this went on a tour and among others visited the convent in milan to see the last supper. as the reactance would write. it is most excellent although it is beginning to decay easily because of the down on the sofa wall some other form of clicked. in the centuries since the 1st go continue to deteriorate because it was a joining a kitchen so all the moisture was trapped in the wall in the end there's really no way to know what leonardi great masterpiece looked like. or is there.
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long before an tonio to visit another even more distinguished visitor came to milan with an army into this was the newly crowned king of france louis to 12 just one year after his elevation the king marched on milan to claim the city as his home. and what was the 1st thing that king louis did after he set himself up here in the castello forum so the answer is in the book written by leonardo as 1st biographer george of authority. as for sorry says the king went on a visit he went to the the last supper. it was deeply pressed by the actual service picture both in composition and execution and convinced that he should take
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it back to its king so he tried to find architects who could build a framework of wood and i have to safely transport the fresco back to france with the regard for expense so much to he want to have it. but since it was painted on a wall his majesty could not have his design. but kings aren't used to being told what they cannot have and so louis decided on an even bigger gambit but for that he needed leonardo himself at least that's our theory. even though leonardo was in milan he was wanted back in florence to finish another 1st go to battle of and beyond and the whole of the $500.00 security so he wasn't in a position to stay in milan and do whatever the king had in mind for him but then something extraordinary something that changed everything.
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this is the arcadia adela's thought of the feet hands of the state archives of florence with documents that go back over a 1000 years and here we found a truly remarkable letter with that elected at the elysian to call it a chase him up unless an idiot if you didn't there in the attic with dora the she generally militia question to say then here is a letter from the french king himself king louis the 12th to the gulf alone year the president of the french republic to signoria asking as we have need of must not of the above be painted to the city of florence and want to make him do something by his own hand we beg you to kindly let it all work for us for a period of time and carry out the work we tend to do.
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i think it's becoming clear what the french king once lived in order to do if he can have the 1st school itself he will have the next best thing a copy on canvas that he can take back to france. and what's interesting about is that the king doesn't tell the senior react what he would like him to do he is very cagey about the king doesn't say how long because if our theory is correct and he wants leonardo to make a copy of the last supper that would take. a very long time indeed. the idea of such a live size copy was not far fetched leonardo was arguably one of the 1st painters in history who used his studio to make copies of his own works for sale such as divergent of the rocks painted with his associate umbrella joe depleted he's.
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the madonna of the yarn winder possibly painted with his pupil francesco spawn you will the st n. painted with his assistant mel c. and of course the mona lisa painted by his pupil and close companion solomon. there was a good reason for that here in the sometime early in a valet and that i had a large studio with lots of assistance but he worked very slowly and it's difficult to maintain a large studio when you have a very limited output but it's not so hard if you use your best assistants to make copies of your works for sale under the master's supervision of course so what happened to this copy of the last supper. who painted it and doesn't still exist there's only one way to find out and that is to go to france.
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today we think of paris as the world's epicenter of our culture and fashion this is where the world coms for beauty and refinement but in the 16th century things were very different. people sometimes forget that but in the middle ages it was actually burgundy. which dictated french culture not just an art but also in poetry and music and then came the scourge of the black plague and the 100 years war in which joan of arc would play such an important part.
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of somebody's time when a 12th came to the throne friends was a mere shadow of its former self and louis was very much aware that. he knew that french artists needed to take their opinion. from the italian renaissance. and i think that's why he was so incredibly keen to get the last offer into french . but if that's true and if a live size copy of the last supper was actually made where did it go the answer i think maybe hidden behind these walls this is the shock to the guy you know which one serves as the resident. of just dumb ones. just not worth while for the most important member besides of a king with a twist a sort of prime minister we can underline the fact that he was us both with us dick
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cheney yeah. like his master king louis dumb ones was deeply smitten with the beauty of italian heart he decided he wanted to build a shock to there was entirely in the renaissance time the 1st one in france and so he brought back scores of italian artists and masons to do just that. but he took an artist went to school. and also. some friends he died and the rest of it and various flattery. the pupil of narrative that you came here and what did he do to do lots of things to degrade yourself in one of the most beautiful shots of the cities and to reinforce. the fact that. one of leone otto's leading pupils was working in this chateau around 5009 may be the
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missing piece of the puzzle. unfortunately the chapel and much of the shuttle were destroyed in the french revolution and the term world of fall 'd but one work that andrea painted for the shadow still exists a deposition from the cross which today hangs in the. center s.l.r. a what we know of him who was from a family of artists we think he was probably what imbalance in a period when we're not in his very 1st in line so he wasn't there with him right from the beginning and around 4095 he probably came back from venice team on with his brother christopher a which is of course exactly the moment when they're not is beginning to work on the last supper for s.k. . if that's true then celerity 0 must have been present as the great friend of the last supper took shape on the refectory wall and since he was one of léonard those
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most talented pupils could he have been the one who painted the copy for the french chain in the archives of the château we find a key piece of evidence an inventory of old property including previews from the 1540 s. one of these paintings is no sin fact on twice. the film will say your feast up of 3 to be a lance supper on canvas with monumental figures which is grace had brought over from alone. could this be our 1st hard piece of evidence of a live size copy of the last supper. with monumental figures put this together with what we know that andreas alarie was in guy old in 1509 and that pieces begin to fall into place. there is little doubt
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that solaria was a favorite of the dumb was family in 1507 and even painted a portrait of george his nephew shuttle dumb ones shara was none other than the governor of milan at that time but given the short time frame in which the copy was finished between 1507 and 59 is likely that not only so lottery 0 but also other later nardo pupils were involved including for example jump. but here's the next question where is this can. 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 enter invention to follow the next trail of june.

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