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.
You’re very welcome.
I just wanted to show that Leonardo’s painting wasn’t all that different from those that came before him and his contemporaries.
Another ‘legend’ about Leonardo’s Last Supper is that he originally painted the face of Judas as the face of his worst enemy. But when he went to paint Jesus’ face he had ‘Painter’s Block’ and could not do it. He eventually realized why he could not and went and apologized to his enemy and then painted his own face as Judas and then he was able to paint Jesus, and finish the painting..............
😁🙄..............................
So that Mel Brooks could have a funny scene in "History of the World, Part One"
I am supposed to care enough to click on what a site called “medium” says about Jesu? Or DaVinci’s depiction of him?
Eh…no. I know where these people get their information from.
‘Medium’ is the artistic term for your materials, paint, canvas, etc...........
“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 she posed as a model for him.”
“She posed”.... huh?
typo.....But it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for DaVinci to use a female model for a male character. He was known for ‘feminizing’ depictions of men in several paintings..............
It was a buffet line
Robert Altman 1970
The Illuminati is just trying to show their presence. France, the Olympics and Catholic Church is the target of the Illuminati.
Look at the guy in post 11. Looks like he’s holding a hamburger!.................
Leonardo remains notorious for not finishing work, this one he finished. He wasn't trained in fresco painting and tried his own method, which started to fail while he was still working on it. Ten years after he started this, he and Michelangelo were contracted to paint dueling frescoes of the Battle of Anghiari, and in the interval he still hadn't trained up, and ruined his surface. Michelangelo got called away by the Pope to begin the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
In Roman times it was common for meals to be taken around a triclinium, or three-sided table, so that the servers could bring food and drink into the middle.
Sounds like some government contractors I know..................
I was surprised to read details about Leonardo using “models” to paint the faces.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, a series of frescoes painted by the legendary Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, stands as one of the greatest works of art in world history.
He painted this on his back and such was his genius he apparently did not use models for the figures.
Yeah, it was kinda difficult to get models to stick to the ceiling. After about the third loss he gave up................😁
“ Because one of them said, “Everyone who wants in the picture, get on this side of the table”...?”
Yep.
Phone cameras back then just weren’t as good.
The pano feature on the IPhone hadn’t been invented yet.
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!”
Can someone parse the above 2 sentences? I can’t follow what they say.
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