Posted on 07/29/2024 5:43:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Last Supper — Leonardo Da Vinci — Photo by: (www.wikipedia.org)
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The Last Supper (Il cenacolo) is the famous fresco that Leonardo da Vinci painted between 1495 and 1497. If you go to Milan, you will surely go to the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie to see and enjoy this magnificent work.
I want to share with you and investigate the way in which Leonardo chose the models for his works and explain the curious story of Jesus and Judas from da Vinci’s Last Supper.
Leonardo took quite a long while to pick the models for his Last Supper.
Numerous contemporary painters of his rehashed the figures starting with one work then onto the next in the event that they had been effective with them. The models were similar regardless of who they spoke to, yet Leonardo had another method of working.
He would consider the nature and presence of the figure he needed to speak to, and afterward, when he comprehended what he needed, he would head off to someplace where he would probably discover individuals with those qualities.
He took notes of their faces, developments, and mentalities, and wouldn’t surrender until he found the model that fit what he had as a primary concern.
In the case of the Last Supper, he chose his models with special care. Legend has it that for Jesus Christ, Leonardo found a young man who was exactly what he was looking for. The chosen one transmitted both life and spiritual strength. For 6 months he posed as a model for him.
Time passed and in spite of the fact that the work was essentially completed, the Prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie became anxious and even grumbled to the Duke, Ludovico Sforza, who had dispatched the fresco for the community’s refectory, that Judas actually had no face.
As per Vasari, Leonardo answered that he had not yet discovered a model that considered conspiracy and degeneracy his face, yet that if the earlier demanded the issue, Judas’ face would be his.
The legend proceeds by clarifying that, at last, Leonardo went to prison, to where those condemned to death were, to check whether he could locate his model.
Bartholomew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Andrew form a group of three; all are surprised. | Judas Iscariot, Peter, and John form another group of three. — Photo by: (https://commons.wikimedia.org)
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There he saw a man who had carried out numerous outrages and who was going to be executed. It was actually what he was searching for, his face reflected malevolence, contempt, and villainy, he had in his eyes a hardness and frigidity ideal for Judas the trickster.
He approached the Duke for authorization to paint it and his execution was deferred to fill in as a model for the ace.
At the point when they completed the model, he went to Leonardo inquiring as to whether he didn’t remember it, he answered that he didn’t think he had seen it previously.
The man admitted that it was a similar man who had modeled for the figure of Jesus. Crying, he deplored the float that had ended his life and shouted: “How low I have fallen, yesterday I was Jesus and today I am Judas!”
Possibly this curious story is nothing more than a legend, but it is true that Leonardo chose his models with special care and wanted their faces to be the expression of their souls.
Yup.
“Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it?”
They were in their favorite diner and the waitresses and cooks didn’t want to be in the picture.
Notice there is no challis in the painting because Jesus became that challis.
The painting is in a lot worse condition than the second photo shows. Fresco mixes paint with plaster so the color is worked into the wall. Leonardo just painted the dry wall, so the color didn’t sink in, and the damp from the wall caused the paint to flake off.
I wonder about this though:
What Nobody Tells You About the Last Supper Painting
Medium.com ^ | Nov 6, 2020 | Jesús Salazar
Did the bosses just say, “Let’s get the guy named Jesus to write the article?”
Ah-ha ,we caught ‘em now!
Well, one thing’s for sure, it wasn’t a CHEESEBURGER!..............
CHEESEBURGER, CHEESEBURGER. ;-))
Cheeseburgers would not be allowed at The Last Supper since they are considered un-kosher: NO DAIRY PRODUCTS CAN BE SERVED AT THE SAME TIME AS A BEEF DISH.......
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Best laugh I’ve had so far, today!
There are a number of Last Suppers by Renaissance masters, many of them in Florence. The table arrangement is an artistic convention used by all. Most of them are found in refectories btw, as is da Vinci’s.
(There's no escape even on that point -- heh, it's always something.)
The offensive, attention-getting events of the ceremony occurred during the eighth sequence, Festivité, in which
A tribute to the European Union was introduced by "The Final Countdown" and a drone show around the Eiffel Tower forming the 12 stars of the EU flag, and featured drag queens...
Kind of reminds me of the scene in Home Alone, when Gus Polinski was describing the bands biggest hits.
"These.. are songs.?"
There was a dire need to make it home in time for Christmas.
Plot
The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris...
(wiki)
They were talking about how inflation drove up the cost of the supper.
20 years ago, “That 70s Show” actually evoked it in a respectful way.
I guess ‘no elbows on the table’ came about much later...
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