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The "Last Supper" is a remarkable set of full-scale terracota scupltures, produced between 1530 and 1534 by Hodart, a french scuplture commissioned by Friar Brás of Braga Reformer of the Canons Regular. After the extinction of the Religious Orders, the set suffered several misfortunes that lead to the almost complete destruction of the pieces, recently (and partially) restored by the Machado de Castro National Museum, where they are presently on display.

The exhibition also includes the presentation of the recreation of Hodart’s “Last Supper”, a sculptural ensemble today at the Machado de Castro National Museum, displayed through a 3D VideoMapping in its original location.

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Ana Alcoforado studied History at the Arts Faculty of the University of Coimbra and was conservative curator of the Sculpture and Furniture Collections of the Machado de Castro National Museum (MNMC). Specialized in Public Administration and author of several publications related to the collections of the MNMC and other specialized publications, including Frei Cipriano da Cruz em Coimbra (Coimbra, 2003) in co-authorship.She has participated as a researcher and commissioner in the production of various exhibitions, script and catalog design and other promotional material. She has conducted training and presented communications, within the scope of Art History (architecture and sculpture), Museology and Heritage Management. She has been director of the Machado de Castro National Museum since 2008.

Vítor Murtinho is Full Professor at the Department of Architecture (DArq) of FCTUC and researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He was Director of Darq (2004-2006), Vice-President and Subdirector of FCTUC (2002-2011) and Vice-Rector of the University of Coimbra (2011-2019). Since 1987, he has had continuous teaching practice with particular interest in Geometry, Theory and History of Architecture, Sustainability and Rehabilitation of Buildings. His research interests are quite diverse, very much associated with the subjects he teaches, with particular accuracy in the problematics inherent to architectural form.

Rui Lobo is a professor at the Architecture Department of FCTUC and a researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He holds PhD in Architecture, in 2010, at the University of Coimbra: A Universidade na Cidade. Urbanismo e Arquitectura universitários na Península Ibérica da Idade Média e da primeira Idade Moderna. He has produced research in the field of Theory and History of Architecture, particularly in the history of university architecture and urbanism and in the history of Portuguese architecture (16th to 18th centuries). He has taught course units of Architecture Theory and History, Design and Research Seminar. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Subdirector of the Department of Architecture of FCTUC. He is currently Principal Researcher of the Santa Cruz Research Project, financed by FCT and FEDER/COMPETE2020/POCI.

Mauro Costa Couceiro is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. Over the past two decades, he has been teaching and developing techniques and technologies around analogies between Biology, Architecture and Design, particularly in the interaction of analog and digital processes, covering the fields of materialization and design through robotic methods (CAM) and Artificial Intelligence (CCAD – Computer Creative Assisted Design). He has developed his doctoral research at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, linking to this day the “Consolidated Research Group of Genetic Architectures” in Barcelona.