Leonardo Da Vinci - The Secret Life Of The Mona Lisa. Leonardo's Last Supper. Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498, tempera and oil on plaster (Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker "Leonardo imagined, and has succeeded in expressing, the desire that has entered the minds of the apostles to know who is betraying their Master. So in the face of each one may be seen love, fear, indignation, or grief at not being able to understand the meaning of Christ; and this excites no less astonishment than the obstinate hatred and treachery to be seen in Judas.
" (Georgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 1568; translated by George Bull) "St. Subject The subject of the Last Supper is Christ’s final meal with his apostles before Judas identifies Christ to the authorities who arrest him. Christ says to his apostles “One of you will betray me,” and the apostles react, each according to his own personality. Iconography Leonardo’s Last Supper is dense with symbolic references. Apostles Attributes identify each apostle. Leonardo. Speaker: Dr. David Drogin The heavens often rain down the richest gifts on human beings, but sometimes they bestow with lavish abundance upon a single individual beauty, grace and ability, so that whatever he does, every action is so divine that he distances all other men, and clearly displays how his greatness is a gift of God and not an acquirement of human art.
Men saw this in Leonardo. (Vasari, on Leonardo)Leonardo's Early Life & TrainingLeonardo was born illegitimate to a prominent Tuscan family of potters and notaries. Leonardo in Milan Four years later, Leonardo arrived in Milan bearing a silver lyre (which he may have been able to play), a gift for the regent Ludovico from the Florentine ruler, Lorenzo the Magnificent. Leonardo flourished in this intellectual environment. In a now famous letter, Leonardo listed his talents to the Duke, focusing mostly on his abilities as a military engineer.
Leonardo’s Death and the Changing Status of the Artist. Leonardo by Ben Pollitt on Prezi.