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...Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork, which is located in the former refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie convent, was said to have begun deteriorating almost as soon as it was finished in 1497. The surface cracked because Da Vinci used an experimental primer on the wall. Then came the ravages of flooding, the cutting of a doorway, clumsy restoration and Allied bombing during World War II. But the latest attacks have come from modern tourists...
According to Italian restorers assessing the treasure with electronic microscopes, visitors track in urban dust and bacteria, and their rumbling tour buses spew fumes into the air around the painting. Within the next few weeks the public will be barred from viewing The Last Supper at least until restorers finish work on it, probably after...
...Buckley and Joyce Carol Oates, Art & Antiques has gained a reputation for provocative reporting. One article last year raised questions (still unresolved) about the authenticity of the Antioch chalice, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and purported to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper. A few months ago, a man speaking broken English wandered into the magazine's offices. He turned out to be carrying slides smuggled out of the Soviet Union showing works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts never before seen in the West...
...scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish and Continental. "About 65% of our business is now tapas," says the chef, who offers them all day and evening, and for supper in the Ballroom's adjoining cabaret. He makes weekly trips to the Island Club on Williams Island in North Miami, where he supervises tapas as well as the rest of the food operation...
Stoss produced nothing, it seems, in the last ten years of his life. Yet this unrespectable old man was capable of dazzling technical feats which, far from being mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety...