BEAUTY IN GLASS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 7

BEAUTY IN GLASS

0a Vinci's "The Last Supper" A complcte reproduction In stained glass of Leonardo da Yinci's wellknown painting "The Last Supper/' was the most beautiful thing she had seen, said Mrs. W. A. O'Callaghjan, Hawera, in an addrOss to the Hawera Eotary Club on her recent visit to the United States of America. This work was contaiiied in the Eorest Liawn CemCtery, CalifOfnia. The ccmetery was an undulating lawn, with small headstones at intervals, and a little ehurch and mausoleum of cream marble, said Mrs. O'Callaghan. The building contalned the reproduction, which was twiee the sizo of the picture and perfect in every detail, It had beeii made by the Only surviving member of successive familics of Italian glass -stainerk, a woman. It had taken six years to complete and five times had the face of Jndas cracked in the furnace. Before it left Italy it had been seen by Signor Mus* solini and King Victor EmmanueL It was thought that this glass reproduction would long outlast the original painting, and it was, in effect, a peitect copy, the artist studylng all the obtainable works of da Yinci to steep herself in his mastery. fIt is the most beautL ful thing I have ever seen," coneiuded Mrs O'Callaghan, "and I coull have gone back to it two or three times e day." %