14 décembre 2021
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Ingrid D. Rowland, « 2) The Last Supper of Forest Lawn, medievalism, and female entrepreneurship in Fascist Italy », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.28312
The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn in Glendale preserves not only copies of Michelangelo’s sculpture but also a stained-glass replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, commissioned by Forest Lawn’s founder William Eaton in 1925 of the Italian master glass painter Rosa Moretti Caselli (1896-1989). Founded in 1858, the Moretti-Caselli studio capitalized from the outset on a revived nineteenth-century interest in medieval art and architecture, creating stained glass by using traditional mediev...