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the wedding. For this, that is, for the fact that

he had taken away the bridegroom, offense

departed and gave itself to any kind of But the picture of the Last Supper presents
debauchery “but adds that" all these things another detail that makes it unique and

seem to be false and unfounded. " I mean, mysterious. The author, Giulio Campi, would
Dan Brown didn't find out anything new. To have in fact wanted to make a kind of seal

confirm the ambiguous attitude, conscious or depicting himself in one of the characters
unaware that it is, held in representing the attending the banquet. It is the enigmatic

figure of Saint John there is also a drawing of character who faces the far right. The only one

to turn to the observer. His face, among the
the same Leonardo da Vinci conserved today disciples who flock around Christ, is the only

at the Bibliotheca Rale di Torino presented at strongly characterized, framed by a sparse

the exhibition "The Genius and the Passions" beard quite similar to that present on the
Curated in 2001 by Pietro Marani. It is clearly profile of a medal of the Accademia Carrara of

the face of a young girl who, according to the Bergamo dedicated precisely to our illustrious
fellow citizen. And it is also the only one, in a

curator of the exhibition, would later be genre scene, to dress up a dress of modern
adopted for some characters in the shape.

Cenacle, including John himself "which

was to be distinguished by a similar When he painted the canvas towards 1569
sweetness and intensity, if the painting Giulio was to have around 62/63 years, he

had not been immediately wasted " was now at the end of his career and was
Giulio Campi had before him a precise competing in the same work with the

iconographic tradition to refer to. If youngest Bernardino, then in his full artistic
anything, he did not strive with the maturity. Why would he want to be in a

imagination in replicating unchanged the completely original painting like the Last

figure, almost as if it were a comic, Supper? That even he as Leonardo wanted to
making her dress the role of Magdalene leave a sign of his belonging to the

in the box above. mysterious Association of the Priory of Zion,

thus showing to share the thesis of

Magdalene, the Bride of Christ?

Fabrizio Loffi - writer