The Last Supper
- Carmen. 2000. “Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/leon/hd_leon.htm
The author begins this essay by a summary of Leonardo da Vinci life and work experience. Talking about his drawings and scientific contributions that are keep in his notebooks because most of them were not finish, explaining the locations of Leonardo’s work and living giving him credit for being not just an incredible artist but also a great inventor. Then the author starts referring to “The Last Supper” as a master piece explaining a little bit of the process to making it. Finally, by explaining the motives and inspiration that Leonardo da Vinci had for painting the …show more content…
Explaining the change in the artistic representation of the bread during the Renaissance period, but not only focusing on the bread because other representations of the Last Supper even change the table that sometimes it’s round, square, U-shaped, or rectangular. This journal focuses more on the symbolism of the objects and representation in The Last Supper for Christianity. Finally, the author made the readers understand from where the painting of Leonardo da Vinci came from of the Dominican refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan and expressing the patrons and skills that the artist put in the painting and the Florentine traditions. In conclusion, the journal expresses the institution of the Eucharist symbolistic ideas of the representations of the Last Supper in general and from different point of views and different artist and …show more content…
The article covers images of The Last Supper from different countries and talks about the difference in culture with the influences that give the artist to paint Christ last day and similarities of the religion that the artist is part of. When the author start to talk about Leonardo da Vinci and his painting of The Last Supper it expresses his though of how the artist included more of a European look to the painting than Jewish. Even with the shape of the table because before the 12th century the table in paintings of The Last Supper was round or in a D-Shape also contrasting with the Jewish culture of the Passover meals. In conclusion, the author points about the cultural differences that Leonardo made to the painting, but understanding the benefices and the reasons for being the way it
The author begins this essay by a summary of Leonardo da Vinci life and work experience. Talking about his drawings and scientific contributions that are keep in his notebooks because most of them were not finish, explaining the locations of Leonardo’s work and living giving him credit for being not just an incredible artist but also a great inventor. Then the author starts referring to “The Last Supper” as a master piece explaining a little bit of the process to making it. Finally, by explaining the motives and inspiration that Leonardo da Vinci had for painting the …show more content…
Explaining the change in the artistic representation of the bread during the Renaissance period, but not only focusing on the bread because other representations of the Last Supper even change the table that sometimes it’s round, square, U-shaped, or rectangular. This journal focuses more on the symbolism of the objects and representation in The Last Supper for Christianity. Finally, the author made the readers understand from where the painting of Leonardo da Vinci came from of the Dominican refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan and expressing the patrons and skills that the artist put in the painting and the Florentine traditions. In conclusion, the journal expresses the institution of the Eucharist symbolistic ideas of the representations of the Last Supper in general and from different point of views and different artist and …show more content…
The article covers images of The Last Supper from different countries and talks about the difference in culture with the influences that give the artist to paint Christ last day and similarities of the religion that the artist is part of. When the author start to talk about Leonardo da Vinci and his painting of The Last Supper it expresses his though of how the artist included more of a European look to the painting than Jewish. Even with the shape of the table because before the 12th century the table in paintings of The Last Supper was round or in a D-Shape also contrasting with the Jewish culture of the Passover meals. In conclusion, the author points about the cultural differences that Leonardo made to the painting, but understanding the benefices and the reasons for being the way it