Art, Architecture and Design
Ross King
Leonardo and the Last Supper
9:30am | Sunday 16 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | Blenheim Palace, Courtyard Restaurant |
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This was an Oxford Literary Festival 2012 Event.
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Writer Ross King returns to the festival to tell the story of one of the world’s best-known works of art, Leonardo’s The Last Supper. The image is familiar to everyone but its execution is not so. Leonardo was in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. The Last Supper was a complex mural painted on a surface 15 feet high by 20 feet high. He had never painted anything so large nor had he worked in the medium of fresco.
King tells the story of the creation of what came to be seen as a ‘miraculous image’. He describes the difficulties faced by the artist, the experimental techniques he employed, the models he used and the personalities involved, including the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, who commissioned the work.
King’s previous works include Brunelleschi’s Dom, a top-10 New York Times bestseller, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling and Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power.
Price of this event includes coffee/tea and cakes.