Da Vinci's Last Supper - Vienna, Austria
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There is a life-sized copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper on the northern wall of the Minoritenkirche in the 1st district.
Waymark Code: WM7T6K
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 11/29/2009
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The replica is a mosaic made by the Roman mosaic artist Giacomo Raffaelli, commissioned by Napoleon I in 1809, as he proposed to substitute it for the original in Milan and remove the real paintig to Paris, but it was not finished before Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo in 1815. Francis II of Austria bought the replica, wanting to install it in the Belvedere in Vienna. As it was too large for the building, the work was set up on the north wall of the Church of the Minorite Order (see
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The mosaic's measures are 9.18 x 4.47 m, it weights approximately 20 tons.
Source: Wikipedia