success now has happened than ever before, but the creation is not repairable. Leonardo became obsessed with this painting, and the study of the subjects to appear in it. The Last Supper had taken him over two years to create. He constructed many studies involving the painting. Most were about the physical features of the saints. (5) In one of his studies, he made a wonderful sketch of the creation to come. This study also has been ruined over these 500 years, but new computer technology has been able to restore the sketch as if it was redone. Even with restoration the painting looks as if it has a great piece missing to it, and to fill that old piece would make the painting amazing again. He made each and every person in this painting unique, having different facial expressions according to what is said in the bible. This realistic component of the painting made it overwhelming to look at.In the late 1940’s the painting was in a perilous state and was turning to dust. Italy’s Ministry of Fine Arts sent Mauro Pellicoli, a master restorer, out into the world to find something to hold the painting together. With the new invention that he had found, he began to take away all the attempts at repainting it, and showed the natural beauty of it. (6) This new method had even brought forth a mistake that Leonardo had made during his time painting this. Even so the methods used here made the painting look like it was when it was first created, or at least that the painting ever could look like its natural self. Leonardo had many events going on in his life at that time. He was around 50 years old at the time of this creation, and many political events were happening. The attack at Milan had just demolished The Horse he had created for the Duke Lodovico, he had started to study the anatomy very often, and was also interested greatly with inventions. Leonardo had just started to gain pupils. He treated each of his pupils with great r...
