The Last Supper - Now Online in Amazing Detail.

Posted by Anita in Arts & Crafts on October 28, 2007 at 2:21 pm


An Italian technology firm, HAL9000, has created an online mega-composite of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper at an incredible 16 gigapixel resolution (about 2,000 times more detailed than a standard digital photograph). The picture above shows the hands of the person sitting next to Jesus in the Last Supper (the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code), at only a 6% zoom.

I chose this particular image for the benefit of any fellow conspiracy theorists … doesn’t it look a little like a wedding ring on “her” left middle finger?

Link to the Last Supper via Reuters



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9 comments to "The Last Supper - Now Online in Amazing Detail."

  1. collapsibletank
    October 28th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    Actually, no! It looks like a ring on the first joint of the right middle finger, bizarrely.

    But nevertheless, conspirators be damned!

  2. dd
    October 28th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    don’t know about the ring, but I just realized the “disembodied hand” holding the knife is really just the hand of that one guy folded back against his hip. Makes so much more sense now.

  3. Anita
    October 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    dd - that’s the neat thing about this project … instead of being forced to blindly accept/deny Dan Brown’s conspiracy theories, or my own, or anyone else’s, you can look for yourself.

    Ring or not, Jesus’s right-hand man/woman still looks pretty effeminate.

  4. Coreburn
    October 28th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Why do these things for viewing super highres images never let you expand the viewer to full screen?? I’m using a 1920 x 1200 display viewing a 16GP image but stuck in a tiny window around 720 x 400… It’s like a giant leap forward & backward at the same time. The viewer at gigapan.org will let you view full screen though or full browser anyway.

  5. Alex
    October 28th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    HAL9000 SRL also did the same thing for Vita di Cristo (Christ’s passion) fresco last year.

  6. Ivan
    October 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Doesn’t look like a ring to me. If it is then it is strangely out of place.

  7. Paulo
    October 28th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    “the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code”

    You mean the apostle John, right? No one in the know ever said it was anyone other than an effeminate-looking John until the “Priory” myth was conceived later on, which Dan Brown capitalized heavily on — a full decade after Pierre Plantard himself admitted it was a complete fraud.

  8. Leonardo
    October 29th, 2007 at 6:31 am

    I don’t know dummies. What ever made Da Vinci an authority on Christ, especially being born 1500 years after?

  9. Andie
    October 29th, 2007 at 11:02 am

    I still can’t believe how seriously people treated that book in the first place. Seriously, I’d swear every other chapter ended with an ellipse…

    It was funny.


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