97 Last Supper Intermediate

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S I T E© Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2008

The Last Supper for the laptop generation

Level 2 Intermediate

Warmer: The Last Supper quiz1

Choose the correct answers in teams.

1. What kind of painting is the Last Supper?

an oil painting a fresco a watercolour a mosaic

2. Who painted the Last Supper?

Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Botticelli

3. When was it painted?

1405 between 1600 and 1603 between 1494 and 1498 1560

4. Where is the painting?

Venice Rome The Vatican City Milan

5. How big is the painting?

460 x 880 cm 80 x 80 cm 46 x 80 cm 1200 x 400 cm

6. How many people are depicted in the painting?

11 12 13 14

Key words2

Write the key words from the article into the sentences below.

1. When you get ____________________, somebody in authority gives you the right to do something.

2. A ____________________ is an excellent painting, book, piece of music etc, or the best work of art that a

particular artist, writer, musician etc has ever produced.

3. Local ofcials, government workers and departments are often called the ____________________.

4. A ____________________ is a large communal food hall.

5. Something that is ____________________ is considered to be holy or connected with God in a special way.

6. ____________________ is the act of deliberately damaging or destroying something.

7. A _____________________________ is a show that will never be repeated.

8. When someone does this they curse or say offensive things about religious beliefs: ____________________.

9. ____________________ are people who have an important ofcial position, e.g. mayor or government minister.

10. ____________________ is the feeling of being very interested in something or excited by it.

dignitaries blaspheme refectory enthusiasm vandalism

authorities masterpiece permission one-off performance sacred



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Greenaway’s hi-tech gadgetryhighlights da Vinci for thelaptop generation

Robert Booth in Milan

July 2, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper burst into

new life on Monday night after Peter Greenaway

nally got permission to reinvent the 510-year-old

masterpiece as a sound and light show.

In a remarkable victory for the British lm director,

the Italian authorities allowed Greenaway to take

projectors, computers and speakers into the usually

quiet and air-sealed refectory of Santa Maria

delle Grazie, where the image of Christ and his

twelve apostles decorates an end wall. Inside the

refectory, Greenaway unveiled his vision of one of

Christianity’s most sacred and fragile paintings,

re-imagined “for the laptop generation”.

To the sound of modern opera, he used moderntechnical tricks to make Leonardo’s Christ appear

like a three-dimensional hologram while the sun

rose and set over his head. He turned the original

colourful painting red, grey and black; dawn broke,

dusk fell and by the end of the performance the

apostles were behind the shadow of

prison-like bars.

At least one of the world’s experts on da

Vinci thought Greenaway’s work was “cultural

vandalism”. But others think it may have saved The

Last Supper’s reputation from The Da Vinci Code,

Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel.

Monday’s one-off performance almost did not

happen. For 18 months the authorities refused

permission as they were worried about possible

damage to the painting and that Greenaway

might blaspheme.

Permission was nally granted late last month by

the Italian government in Rome. Greenaway was

only allowed to stage the show for one night to a

select group of Milanese dignitaries, art experts and

monks. But despite the small audience, there was

a feeling that Greenaway’s show could become a

turning point in the painting’s history.

“If Leonardo was alive now he wouldn’t just be

interested in lm-making, he would be using

high-denition cameras and would beexperimenting with holograms,” said Greenaway.

“He would be fascinated by modern technology. I

am sure that he would support what we are doing.

This painting belongs to the world in general; it

belongs to the laptop generation as much as it does

to academics and we want to demonstrate that.”

After the performance, the audience responded

with enthusiasm. “I saw things that I have never

seen before,” said Francesca Fiore, 41, a manager

with Vodafone Italia. “It was incredible,” said Pierre

Demarani, a publisher. “There is a new light, a new

colour and a new vision.”

Greenaway plans to repeat the performance on

Las Meninas by Velázquez, Picasso’s Guernica,

Monet’s Waterlilies and a Jackson Pollock in New

York. His greatest ambition, though, is to work with

Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

in the Vatican.

© Guardian News & Media 2008

First published in The Guardian, 02/07/08

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Vocabulary4

According to the article are these sentences True (T) or False (F)?

The Last Supper has been ‘reinvented’ as a sound and light show by a British lm director.

The Last Supper can be seen in a dining hall in Milan.

Greenaway’s Last Supper performance will be shown again in the Sistine Chapel.

Greenaway thinks the painting should belong to everyone.

The audience thought the performance was blasphemous.

Da Vinci painted the last supper in red, grey and black.

Peter Greenaway wrote the blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code.

Greenaway thinks da Vinci would have supported the new show.

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Comprehension check3

1. Complete these sentences with morning or evening .

a) The sun rises in the _____________________ and sets in the _____________________.

b) Dusk usually falls in the _____________________.

c) Dawn breaks in the _____________________.

2. How many words can you add to the word wheels?

3. Describe dawn and dusk .

e . g .

s u n

r i s e

sun

e . g .

l i g h t

s h o w

light

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Addiction to Internet ‘is an illness’


KEY

1 Warmer: The Last Supper quiz

Teacher’s tip: award each team two points for a correct

answer or if there are no correct answers, give one point to

the team with the closest answer.

1. a fresco (although many call it a ‘false fresco’ as it was

painted on a dry wall)

2. Leonardo da Vinci

3. between 1494 and 1498

4. In a refectory adjoining the church of Santa Maria delle

Grazie in Milan, Italy.

5. 460 x 880 cm

6. 13: Jesus and his 12 apostles

2 Key words

1. permission

2. masterpiece

3. authorities

4. refectory

5. sacred

6. vandalism

7. one-off performance

8. blaspheme

9. dignitaries

10. enthusiasm

3 Comprehension check

1. True

2. True

3. False

4. True

5. False

6. False

7. False

8. True

4 Vocabulary

1. a) morning / evening

b) evening (note: sometimes late afternoon)

c) morning

Teacher’s notes:

If possible, watch the video via the Guardian website or

YouTube before teaching this lesson. Integrate the video

into your lesson if you can.

Copy and print out (or show on screen) the seven photos

which are found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/

gallery/2008/jul/02/art?picture=335404629

Either as an additional starter or as an extension, ask the

students to talk about what they see on each photo.

Set an extra task for homework: ask the students to nd

out how they would go about booking tickets to see the

Last Supper. Where and how would they buy them? How

much do they cost? When can you go and see the Last

Supper (every day or only at special times)? etc.


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