Excerpt from Pencillings by the Way, Vol. 2 of 3
On the lower floor of the entrance-hall in the former palace lies the copy, in mosaic, of Leo nardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, done at Napoleon’s order. Though supposed to be the finest piece of mosaic in the world, it is so large that they have never found a place for it. A temporary balcony has been erected on one side of the room, and the spectator mounts nearlv to the ceiling to get a fair position for looking down upon it. That unrivalled picture, now going to decay in the convent at Milan, will probably depend upon this copy for its name with pos terity. The expression in the faces of the apostles is as accurately preserved as in the admirable engraving of Morghen.
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