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Which Leonardo da Vinci mural began flaking apart within years of its completion because he experimented with oil and tempera instead of true fresco?
Answer
The Last Supper
Leonardo painted The Last Supper on a dry plaster wall using oil and tempera rather than the traditional wet-plaster fresco method, causing the paint to flake almost immediately after completion.
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Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper began deteriorating within years because he rejected traditional fresco technique, experimenting instead with oil and tempera on dry plaster.
Other options people guess
- Mona Lisa
- The Vitruvian Man
- The Annunciation
Topics
- renaissance
- leonardo-da-vinci
- painting-technique
- art-history
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