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The longed-for Milanese week of 'Saloni', led by the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, celebrates a unique event conceived by refined English artist and cinema director Peter Greenway, who will show his surprising vision of Leonardo da Vinci's 'The last supper' at Palazzo Reale. From the 16th of April to the 21st, the beautiful Sala delle Cariatidi will host a perfect clone of the famous masterpiece.

The 'copy', which has the same dimensions of the authentic (28.87 feet per 15), was realised through a series of highly-sophisticated technological operations managed by an other English, Adam Lowe, in the Factum Arte laboratories of Madrid. Lowe, an expert of works of art's recreation, had already proved his skills by taking to San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venezia an identical image of 'The marriage at Cana' by Paolo Veronese, which is exposed at Paris' Louvre Museum.

First of all, the painting was photographed in high definition and it was scannerized. Then, the fresco was reproduced as if in its real context, the refectory being provided with the same vaultings, the same walls and even the same decorations. It took four months to complete the work, which was transported from the Spanish capital to Italy by two 42-feet long trucks.

A genial photographer, Greenway has set up the changing lights, shadows and projections that illuminate the digital facsimile, whose colours, imperfections and even cracks procreate the original elements. The daily visits will be 10: 150 people will be allowed to admire the 20-minute long show at the same time, so it is estimated that by the end of the event 9,000 thousand amateurs will have enjoyed this peculiar da Vinci's magic.