For the current augmented history exhibition
Leonardo DaVinci's Workshop at the new
Discovery Times Square Exposition in the old
Times building, the Milan-based tech company behind the show,
Leonardo3 (which, spoiler alert, will turn out to be the evil corporation perpetrating all the gloomy goings on in Dan Brown's upcoming
DaVinci Code sequel), used hundreds of high-resolution photographs to create a new, better version (pictured, and available in
greater detail here) of DaVinci's deteriorating masterpiece "
The Last Supper" (which looks
like this these days). As a kind of digital restoration of the original, which is in a church in Milan, this seems like a great idea, but isn't it kind of like colorizing old black and white movies? How long before the
sexy cyborg usurps the handmade original? Won't this new "Last Supper" just wait until DaVinci's painting falls asleep and
take its place, substituting a glossy, flat copy for the weathered original? (
Artinfo)
