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Peter Greenaway: Leonardo's Last Supper

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The volume is a series of extreme close-up photographs of most of Leonardo's "Last Supper," prepared in conjunction with an exhibit by Peter Greenaway. Beware! There is only around 1 page of material on/by Greenaway, so, if you're a mere fan but not a total fanatic of Greenaway, there isn't much here that is really of enough interest to justify the high purchase price of the volume. Moreover, if you're considering the volume as a highly detailed photographic study of Leonhardo's work, you'll be equally disappointed. The gridding for the photographs is so idiotically designed and inflexibly followed that virtually all of the faces in the volume are cut in 2--part of the head on one page, the rest of the head separated by several pages. The face of Christ on the cover is an extreme and extremely unfortunate example of this: Although the publisher recognized the need to have a photo of the entire face for the cover, within the volume itself Christ's head is chopped into 4 pieces, each on a different page. As a result, the utility of the volume for art historians or lovers of art who wish to study Leonardo's portraiture is severely and unnecessarily limited. How any publisher could put out a volume this ill-conceived is unfathomable and shameful.