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|title=The Secret Supper

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|date=April 2007

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I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for poor old Leonardo. Time was, when I was 15 and doing O-level history, he was the hero of the age. The archetypal Renaissance man: painter, scientist, philosopher, inventor, engineer. Somewhere along the line, and I confess my ignorance in not knowing where, he has become the villain of the piece.

So, not even worth opening up at all then? Not quite. Some of the detail is interesting for its own sake. The biographical detail and character study of the artist is enough to reawaken my interest in the man behind the legend. The description of the heresy - which did exist, although it is unlikely that Leonardo was part of it - and the impact it could have had on the Church of Rome is well described. The treatises on art and religious symbolism are also edifying for those of us with limited knowledge of such things. I did learn a thing or two... I just found it a little heavy going to get there.

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