For the months of Expo 2015 Amalart creates in Milan a project entirely devoted to Leonardo's Last Supper. In the Sala Barozzi in via del Vivaio the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie is recreated: on the end wall The Last Supper, recently restored, is projected life-size and in very high definition, while on the opposite wall, as in the original, appears Donato Montorfano's Crucifixion.
During the day visitors watch a film, available in eight languages, and can explore the work in minute detail through touch-screen panels. The heart of the project is a video of about ten minutes, made for the occasion, in which Leonardo himself tells how he painted The Last Supper: a first-person account, with an ironic exchange with Vasari, that conveys a surprisingly modern image of the artist.
In the evening the refectory becomes a dining room. The dinners offer menus inspired by the cuisine of Leonardo's time, accompanied by musicians and actors: on some evenings, for example, a performer plays the double harp, the stringed instrument of the Renaissance. The space also hosts corporate events, meetings and private dinners, for an international public that has come to Milan for Expo.
It is Amalart's first project devoted to Leonardo da Vinci, and the point from which a bond originates that in the following years will lead Amalart all the way to the Leonardo da Vinci Museum Sanya.
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