The Great Masterpiece - Lake Wales, Florida

Today we have a postcard book, a panoramic postcard and a giant postcard from The Great Masterpiece, an extinct attraction in Lake Wales, Florida.  In 2009 I posted a couple of the images from the postcard book (I don't know why I didn't do the whole thing) but today I'll post the complete thing.

Beautiful Garden View

The Great Masterpiece, Lake Wales, Florida

"The Last Supper" - The Great Masterpiece

Large Cypress Tree at the Great Masterpiece

Historic Fort Clinch at the Great Masterpiece

Mosaic reproduction of the Great Masterpiece

Mosaic Reproduction of the Great Masterpiece

The Glass Blowers at the Great Masterpiece

The Last Supper at the Great Masterpiece, Lake Wales

Spook Hill near the Great Masterpiece

Beautiful crimson Bougainvillea at the Great Masterpiece

Mosaic wall plaques from the mosaic gift center at the Great Masterpiece

The beautiful Court of Flags, at the famous Great Masterpiece, one of Florida's leading attractions.

Fort Clinch - Reconstructed December, 1954 - one of the extra attractions on the grounds of the Great Masterpiece, Lake Wales, Florida.

The Great Masterpiece - Masterpiece Gardens

The Great Masterpiece
Lake Wales, Florida

In a beautiful garden on the shore of Lake Pierce near the Singing Tower is lovated one of the great art treasures of modern times...a magnificently executed 300,000 piece mosaic in which is recaptured for all time the detail and meaning of Leonardo da Vinci's immortal "Lord's Last Supper".

Viewing the huge mosaic in its unusual outdoor setting, the visitor is easily transported to Milan where Leonardo's original painting, ravaged by time and war, is gradually fading from the wall of an ancient monastery.

Europe's most highly skilled mosaic artisians completed the Great Masterpiece in Germany in 1930.  Flown out of Berlin by U.S. Airlift it was brought to its permanent home here in the Gardens of Peace.