Reimagining Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”
The wonders of hi-tech gadgetry has magnificently recreated da Vinci’s “Last Supper” for the laptop generation
With a glint of a dagger and a blaze of celestial light, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper burst into new life on Monday night after Peter Greenaway finally secured permission to reinvent the crumbling, 510-year-old masterpiece as a sound and light show.
In a remarkable coup for the British film director, the Italian authorities allowed Greenaway to wheel a battery of projectors, computers and speakers into the usually hushed and air-sealed refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where the image of Christ telling the apostles one of them will betray him decorates an end wall. Inside, Greenaway unveiled a provocative vision of one of Christianity’s most sacred and fragile paintings, reimagined “for the laptop generation”.
