Leonardo. The Last Supper by Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Marani, Pietro C

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 458pp. Beige Cloth, black lettering. 382 color plates and 64 halftones. New in New Jacket, in pictorial slipcase. "Between 1494 and 1498, Leonardo da Vinci painted one of the great Western masterpieces directly onto the wall of the refectory of the Santa Maria Della Grazie church in Milan and it immediately started to deteriorate. Leonardo: The Last Supper documents the process by which, after nearly 500 years and various 'restorations,' conservators attempted to get the work as close as possible to its original state." . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11.7 x 10.3".

Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Hardcover. VG. Slipcase covered in beige cloth with color illus. plate affixed; Color illus. dj.; Beige cloth over boards; 440 pp.; Profusely illustrated with over 400 bw and color plates and figures. An in-depth look at the enduring challenge of conserving Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," a task the artist himself had to take up soon after painting the fresco; Includes technical documents and drawings from the twenty-nine year restoration project led by Pinin Brambilla; Heavy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Reprint. hardcover. fine/fine. Da Vinci. Well-illustrated throughout, much in color. 440 pages.Thick square 4to, tan cloth, d.w., pictorial slipcase. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2001)/. Reprint. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper and box.<br/> <br/>

Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 28.5 x 25 cm. Quarto. 440 pages. Tan cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Some sun fading to the dust jacket spine, else fine. Nearly 400 beautiful color reproductions.

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a… Read More

Comprehensive study of Leonardo's masterpiece. Contents: Foreword / Bruno Contardi -- Introduction / Renzo Zorzi -- Leonardo's Last Supper / Pietro C. Marani -- The Last Supper (illustrations) -- The restoration / Pinin Brambilla Barcilon. xiii, 440 p : col. ill ; 29 cm. First English edition, first printing. Ivory cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket, in illustrated slipcase. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Heavy book, will require extra postage for overseas purchase.

University of Chicago Press, 2001-04-02. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2001. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 458 pages. 12.00x10.50x2.25 inches.

Hardcover. New.