The Monuments Men (releasing on 21st February) Team got unprecedented access to photograph the cast in front of one of the world's greatest art masterpieces – Leonardo Da Vinci's THE LAST SUPPER!!!
This
art masterpiece was in danger of being lost during WWII and was rescued
by the Monuments Men as is depicted in the film, so there is a direct
correlation to the film. These images were shot exclusively for Fox by Italian photographer Gianmarco Chieregato.
THE
MONUMENTS MEN AT THE LAST SUPPER MURAL. The fine arts meet cinema in a
unique photograph of the cast of the film The Monuments Men , in front
of one of the greatest masterpieces of the world's art: The Last Supper
by Leonardo Da Vinci.The unprecedented historic photograph, made
possible thanks to the cooperation amongst the Italian Ministry for
Culture and Tourism, the Milan's Monuments, Fine Arts and Landscape
Department, and Twentieth Century Fox, the film distribution company,
was taken inside the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie Church.
“The Magificent Seven” in the snapshot are: the director, screenwriter, producer and star of the film George Clooney and co-stars Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, and Dimitri Leonidas.
In
the second photograph there are the author of the book by the same
title on which the film is based, Robert Edsel, and the real Monuments
Man Harry Ettlinger.
The
Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci is the set of one of the opening
scenes of the film, because the bombing that endangered Leonardo's
masterpiece strongly contributed to the decision to set up the Monuments
Men, a group of art critics, museum curators, and archivists, who
towards the end of the Second World War, saved thousands of artworks
from bombings, pilfering, looting and Nazi barbarity.
