The things I have stated before are
1. the painting of the last supper is the replica done by Leonardos Star pupil Marco d'Oggiono
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He was born at Oggiono near Milan. Of the details of his life we know almost nothing — not even the date of his important series of frescoes painted for the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Milan. He died probably in Milan. Lanzi gives 1530 as the date of his death, but various writers in Milan say it took place in 1540, and the best accepted date is 1549.
He was a hard-working artist, but his paintings are wanting in vivacity of feeling and purity of drawing, while, in his composition, it has been well said "Intensity of color does duty for intensity of sentiment." He copied Da Vinci's Last Supper repeatedly, and one of his best copies is in the possession of the Royal Academy of Arts in England.[/b]
His two most notable pictures — one in the Pinacoteca di Brera (representing St. Michael), and the other in the private gallery of the Bonomi family (representing the Madonna) — are signed Marcus.
Others of his works are to be seen at Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and Turin, the one in Russia being a clever copy of the Last Supper by Leonardo. He cannot be regarded as an important artist, or even a very good copyist, but in his pictures the sky and mountains and the distant landscapes are always worthy of consideration, and in these we probably get the painter's best original work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_D%27_OggioneI ask my self the question why did he copy it well obviously this ties in well with the facts that
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Why is it falling apart?
Leonardo, always the inventor, tried using new materials for Last Supper. Instead of using tempera on wet plaster (the preferred method of fresco painting, and one which had worked successfully for centuries), he thought he'd give using dry plaster a whirl. His experiment resulted in a more varied palette, which was Leonardo's intent. What he hadn't taken into account (because, who knew?) was that this method wasn't at all durable. The painted plaster began to flake off the wall almost immediately, and people have been attempting to restore it ever since.
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/leonardo/a/last_supper.htmSo if the master had stiffed the establishment on a grand scale (15 x 29 feet) and was upset at his efforts being wasted and realising they would not stand the test of time he would have instructed his pupils to replicate it down to the finest detail The method used is quite well documented in a few books I have at home and a search on google yeilds this
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[b]The outlines have been pricked through with a metal point, which suggests a method of direct transfer that involved pouncing the pricked lines with a small bag of charcoal dust in order to produce a sort of “join the dots” outline on the prepared panel, which the artist could then follow in his painting.
I think overall it means that we seem to have been lied to about alot of things when it comes to accepted esablished religion and Historical facts.
Hi JAYLEMURPH
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he wasn't a super-genius or a super-hero. He couldn't do everything.
Ahem

Enough Said
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