From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/16/01-11:58:39 AM Z
>Thor wrote: > > >The subject of Leonardo's "Last Supper" is a curious one. Its seems he > >used an oil-based paint in this >fresco, a very rare, and disaster prone > >technique, for as we all know oil and water (the wet plaster) >don't mix. > >He must have had some kind of "plan", but art historians are hard pressed > >to come up with >what is was. >
>Not so sure about the statement of oil&water, ever tried bromoil printing?
Yes!
>It is the heart of the process, the hate/love relation of water&oil :-) ,
My point exactly: the oil repells the water.
>maybe Leonardo knew about the different adaptation of oil paint on>different degrees of humidity in the plaster.
Maybe he thought he did. The facts proved him to be wrong.
>Henk
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