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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9509900, member: 2844&quot;]The feet of the apostles are also seen on the fresco itself. The only feet that aren&#039;t seen are those of Jesus, simply because a doorway was put in in that exact spot. Not only the feet were damaged, the <u>entire</u> fresco was so damaged that you couldn&#039;t see what it was supposed to look like.</p><p>Leonardo Da Vinci didn&#039;t use the proper fresco technique, which meant that <u>after only 60 years</u> no one could see what it looked like. Which is why no one objected when the door was put in, they couldn&#039;t see what he had painted anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been countless restorations since. During the last restoration the restorers chose to use pale watercolours, to emphasize that it wasn&#039;t the original. This was a conscious decision, because there had been so many restorations already, and <u>nothing about it was original Da Vinci.</u></p><p><br /></p><p><b>However</b>, a few years after Da Vinci finished his fresco, a copy was painted in oil on canvas, most probably in his own studio. It is thought that it was painted by his student Andrea Solari, and the heads of Jesus and John were probably by Leonardo Da Vinci himself.</p><p>This precious copy still exists, in Tongerlo Abbey in Belgium. It is considered one of the treasures of Belgium, along with The Lam of God by the van Eyck brothers, and The Descent from the Cross by Rubens, just to show how much the copy is valued.</p><p>This copy is closer to the original fresco than the restored fresco is, and two of the heads are even thought to be by the master himself. You can&#039;t get any closer to Da Vinci&#039;s original Last Supper than that.</p><p>This is it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]450648[/ATTACH]</p><p>Judas has a firm grasp on his bag, the other hand reaching for the bread. Peter is holding the knife, symbolic of what was to happen at Gethsemane. There is no black guy grabbing anyone&#039;s hand, and no doorway to cut off Jesus&#039; feet.</p><p>So, all exactly as [USER=649]@bluumz[/USER] described.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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