"Last Supper" to go online28.10.2007 00:01 Computers A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's "Last Supper" will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike to scrutinize it from their own computers.
The digital imaging firm, called HAL9000 after the killer computer in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", will post the 16-17 giga pixel image on its Web site (www.haltadefinizione.com) on Saturday. Located in a former monks' dining hall adjacent to a church in Milan, the 500-year-old mural by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus Christ when he predicts that one of his apostles will betray him. Since the publication of the phenomenally successful novel, "The Da Vinci Code", theories have abounded about the true meaning of the mural, known in Italian as "Cenacolo". In the novel, Dan Brown writes that Jesus Christ married his follower, Mary Magdelene, and fathered a child. Others have since elaborated on the controversial idea. Source: techzonez.comwww.alllee.com |
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