Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is a visual interpretation of an event that took place in all four gospels in the bible. What this painting specifically portrays is the next few seconds after Christ dropped the bombshell that one disciple would betray him before sunrise, and all twelve have reacted to the news with different degrees of horror, shock, awe, and anger. Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor and tried using new materials to …
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…used here with the repetition of triangles. I can't really tell much about da Vinci's use of chiaroscuro because of the amount of punishment and restoration that this painting has received over the years. What can be told is that da Vinci probably placed the head of Judas in a shadowy area for a good reason. Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been hailed as the greatest example of one point perspective ever created.