Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper

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“Last Supper”
Background:
In the eve of the feast of the passover, Jesus and his twelve disciples sat down at the table to celebrate the Passover meal, this is the their last meal together. At the dinner table, Jesus suddenly felt troubled, and he told his disciples that one of them would betray him, but Jesus didn’t say that man was Judah, and the disciples didn’t know who would betray Jesus.

《Last Supper》by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous one in this theme.

Location: Santa Maria Delle Grazie
Dimensions: 4.6m x 8.8m
Created: 1494 - 1498
Period: Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, The Renaissance
Media: Wall paint (Gesso, Mastic, Tempera, Pitch)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519):
Was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Modern scholars said he is the most perfect person to represent the Renaissance. He is unique in the history of mankind, and his greatest achievement is painting, his artwork “Mona Lisa”, “Last Supper”, “Virgin of the rocks” and other works all reflect his superb artistic attainments

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He use character’s psychological description and depicted in dramatic senses, deeply reproduce the sharpness of this struggle. When Jesus said someone would betrayed him, the twelve disciples showed different facial expressions and movements: surprise, anger, curse, nervous, especially Judah’s disconcerted manner, portrayed vividly. In the picture, characters’ mood changes, traits, tendency of movements and the combination of characters all have the obvious dramatic and conflict. Metaphor the struggle between light and shade, virtue and evil in the

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