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Re: The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci Style
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:24:42 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Scott Costello wrote:
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Beautiful as alway Brendan,
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Thanks, Scott.
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but how did you acomplish the wall designs, they
look really interesting.
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Even in my earlier two versions of The Last Supper, I had noticed those four
tall, dark rectangles along the side walls in Da Vinci’s original and sought to
create something like them even though I wasn’t sure what they were supposed to
be (four doorways on each wall? black rectangles painted on the walls for
aesthetic reasons?). It wasn’t until I happened to see the life-size mosaic
copy of The Last Supper in Vienna that I realized that these were likely
intended to be eight identical wall hangings (or at least that’s how they seemed
to the artist who made the copy in the early 1800s). Strangely they seem to be
slightly set back in the walls, so either the wall was carved especially for
these hangings, or maybe these are some sort of window coverings for the four
windows on each side wall. If they’re windows, though, it seems unlikely that
they are windows to the outdoors since you’d expect some light to leak through
around the edges.
For the portable version of the new Last Supper (seen in the newspaper photo), I
still went with black bricks flush against the rest of the wall. Simple and
sturdy. But when I brought it back home to try to get a more definitive photo
of the new Last Supper, I wanted to do a little more with those side walls. The
Vienna copy reveals what looks to be a pattern on the wall hangings. I wasn’t
sure how best to mimic that design, but what I came up with was rows of
alternating horizontal 1x1 plates in dark and light gray with a 1x1 tile at the
end so they fit snuggly into wall recesses. I also set them back half a stud
using jumper plates.
I wasn’t sure about which colors to use. The Vienna version seems to have a
little bit of a greenish tint in the wall hangings, so I thought about using
sand green and alternating that with dark or light gray. But I didn’t have
enough 1-by-X sand green plates around, so I used the two grays instead. I’m
pretty happy with the way it turned out.
-Brendan
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