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'The LastSupper' Milton Gendel, in ARTnews (Summer 1979). 121 Garden St., Marion, Ohio
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Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural, The Last Supper (1495-97), has never adhered well to the wall in the Dominican friars' refectory of the church of St. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Dissatisfied with the tech- nique of painting frescoes on wet plaster (because he was a slow worker), Leonardo experimented with an oil-tempera medium that failed to penetrate and bond with the plaster, as fresco...