HOLY MARY OF GRACE - THE LAST SUPPER, The Last Supper - The Painting
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- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
The Last Supper's subject is obviously very suitable for a refectory, that is, for a convent's dining room, but it is also one of the most popular works of art in the history of painting. When he was growing up in Florence, Leonardo da Vinci certainly must have seen many Last Suppers painted by the Tuscan masters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
With this work in Milan, he had the opportunity to challenge them all. Firstly, he decided to place the famous scene narrated in the Gospels within a sort of frame. This frame most likely served to celebrate the magnificence of the Sforza ducal family, who had commissioned the work.
The episode of the Last Supper is one of Christian religion's most important moments....