Note that this is a copy by Giampietrino, a pupil of Leonardo, not the original mural in Milan. For comparison, here's a high resolution version of the original: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last_Supper_-_Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_High_Resolution_32x16.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last...</a>.
It's a stunningly beautiful work, but it also reminds me about the fragility of works.<p>The original is badly damaged. Thankfully, we have this copy, and now that it's been recorded electronically in theory we will at least have this version forever. But in practice, I fear that a lot of data will disappear. Modern hard drives and ssds have a frighteningly short lifetime. There are some organizations that are trying to record some of this, such as the internet archive, but it is not clear to me that they are going to last in the long term.<p>I would like to be more confident that much of the works of the present and past (like this) will survive into the future.
Wow! The level of detail is so amazing. I have seen photos of the painting online and in books, but had never noticed the halos around each of the disciples except for Judas.
Can anyone recommend a working script that downloads and stitches the highest resolution image available from here:<p><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-last-supper-attributed-to-giampietrino-and-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio/" rel="nofollow">https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-last-supper-attr...</a>
Note, that this is A COPY of Last Supper, mentioned in the article but not prominently enough:<p>"The Royal Academy of Arts and Google teamed up on a high-resolution scan of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper painted by his students."
Maybe it's distributed systems thinking, but they should really paint six more of these copies so that we can withstand a random failure of any three.
This is a blog post summarizing another blog post [1] about a page [2] from Google Arts and Culture with the images itself. If possible, it would probably be better to update the URL to one of the other pages, as this one does not add much additional information.<p>1: <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leonardos-the-last-supper-digitized-by-google.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leo...</a><p>2: <a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-supper/sAKCB2AzvHUmKQ" rel="nofollow">https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-sup...</a>