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    The student analyzes Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper". The painting depicts the last meal that Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion. It was created between 1494-1498 during the High Renaissance using oil tempera paint. The painting skillfully uses elements like lines, color, light and symbolism to draw attention to Jesus and convey emotion through the apostles' reactions. It also uses techniques like linear perspective to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. The student chose to analyze this piece because of the immense meaning and techniques captured in da Vinci's masterful work.

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    The student analyzes Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper". The painting depicts the last meal that Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion. It was created between 1494-1498 during the High Renaissance using oil tempera paint. The painting skillfully uses elements like lines, color, light and symbolism to draw attention to Jesus and convey emotion through the apostles' reactions. It also uses techniques like linear perspective to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. The student chose to analyze this piece because of the immense meaning and techniques captured in da Vinci's masterful work.

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    The student analyzes Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper". The painting depicts the last meal that Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion. It was created between 1494-1498 during the High Renaissance using oil tempera paint. The painting skillfully uses elements like lines, color, light and symbolism to draw attention to Jesus and convey emotion through the apostles' reactions. It also uses techniques like linear perspective to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. The student chose to analyze this piece because of the immense meaning and techniques captured in da Vinci's masterful work.

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    Christeena Boddakayala

    Ms. Naus

    Art Analysis: Favorite Work of Art

    27 September 2021

    “The Last Supper” Analysis

    The artwork I chose is, “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci. This piece was created

    between 1494 and 1498 and is classified as being created during the High Renaissance. It is one

    of the best-known works of Christian art. Though now it is deteriorating due to it being so old as

    well as the number of restorations it has gone through, which has washed away some details.

    This particular time period was marked by the introduction of many new methods of artistic

    expression as well as new techniques in existing artistic formats. Many of these new techniques

    modified lighting and color to portray deep emotion and added drama to pieces. The culture that

    this piece was found in was in Early Europe. Leonardo used oil tempera to create this piece. Oil

    tempura allows artists to paint with brighter colors, greater contrasts and added depth. This piece

    illustrates the scene of the last days of Jesus Christ. This painting represents the last meal Jesus

    shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. With his twelve apostles by his side,

    Jesus declares that one of them will betray him. This picture shows the reaction of each disciple

    to the news. The painting captures twelve individuals in the midst of questioning, motioning, or

    showing various shades of horror, anger and disbelief. Their reactions are in complete contrast to

    the serious and open pose of Jesus. The scene shows us figures in a rectangular room with space

    on the ceiling and tapestries on either side of the room. The room ends at three windows on the
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    end of the wall and through the windows we can see into a beautiful landscape setting. We see

    how the landscape in the background ends in a kind of misty, grayish horizon. This device, in

    which the horizon’s colors become more dull and colorless is used to create the illusion of depth.

    Christ is in center among the apostles, and his body forms a triangle-like shape which is not

    overlapped by any apostles. There are thirteen figures present; the figure of Jesus is at the center

    of the frame, forming a triangle. Surrounding him, the twelve disciples are grouped together in

    threes. Each of the figures has its own individual stance, fitting in with those surrounding it to

    carry the movement of the scene from one end of the table to the other. Even though the

    movements being made, hand gestures, people leaning forward, are large, none of them draw

    attention more than the others. The scene is perfectly balanced. Some elements and properties the

    artist used in this painting are space, proportion, emphasis, color and lines. The artist uses

    brighter colors in the center as well as darker colors along the sides and back to emphasize the

    person in the middle. You can also see that the person in the middle, Jesus, stands out more than

    the others because they have more space than the rest. Leonardo uses lines that converge at some

    point to show depth on a flat surface. Space is once again used with the table. The table seems to

    be too big for the room and is almost touching the corners, but it still isn’t large enough to seat

    everyone. The artist has created a three dimensional illusion on a flat surface using many visual

    properties and techniques. There is a window located behind Christ that puts more emphasis on

    him. The window, which is open, creates a halo or light around his head. Because of the

    characters' expressions, motions of the head, arms and fingers, the viewers emotionally feel the

    work of art. Depth is perceived through shading and modeling. The fields in the background

    being blurry emphasizes Christ as the main point. I chose this piece because it encaptures so
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    much on a flat surface. The artist shows a lot of emotion through many elements and principles

    of art. There is so much meaning and symbolism in this painting and I was attracted to how they

    were incorporated into the painting. Many elements stand out in this piece. Ones such as lines,

    which center you onto the main focus, Jesus. The colors and usage of light was also very well

    done in this painting.

    “The Last Supper” by Leonardo Da Vinci

    Works Cited

    Cascone, Sarah. “Leonardo Da Vinci Made a SECRET Copy of 'the Last SUPPER' and,

    Miraculously, It Still Exists.” Artnet News, Artnet News, 24 Mar. 2018,

    news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardo-da-vinci-last-supper-copy-1247756.

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