Leonardo renovation attacked

Saturday 23 March 1996 00:02 GMT

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Leonardo renovation attacked

Paris - A French art historian claimed Italian restorers had stripped away so much from Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" that they turned his masterpiece into a ghostly image more like a modern painting. Jacques Franck said the team restoring the mural in a Milan church had stripped away all the repaints added since Leonardo painted the work, taking no account of their crucial role in preserving the original. Reuter

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