Docuumentary on Art
Private
life of a masterpiece
Leonardo
da Vinci‘s Last Supper
Duration 50 minutes
26th Oct
2013; 5.45pm
Contemplate Art
Galley
2nd Floor,
Rajshree Ford Bldg.
Opp P.S.G.R. Krishnammal
College, Peelamaedu, Coimbatore
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Leonardo da Vinci‘s
Last Supper
Perhaps the most lionised, analysed, parodied of all
Christ-centred artworks with almost as much controversy about how it has been
restored as in how it was created, The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts
the dramatic moment when Christ tells his disciples that one of them will
betray him.
In The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci we see how
preparatory drawings and Leonardo’s own notes reveal that he used live models
for the figures of the disciples. We even know he used two different models for
Christ.The stories behind iconic pieces of art. The Last Supper revolutionized
Western art and its power reverberates to this day in the courts, bookshops and
cinemas. How Leonardo da Vinci broke with traditions in creating his supremely
dynamic masterpiece is recounted.
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452 -1519)
Da Vinci was one of the great creative minds of the Italian
Renaissance, hugely influential as an artist and sculptor but also immensely talented
as an engineer, scientist and inventor. Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter,
draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than
that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal There has
never been an artist who was more fittingly, and without qualification,
described as a genius. Like Shakespeare, Leonardo came from an insignificant
background and rose to universal acclaim. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona
Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of
the Renaissance.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan
town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of a local lawyer. He was apprenticed to
the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became
an independent master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling
Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect. From 1495 to
1497 he produced a mural of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery
of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.Da Vinci was in Milan until the city was
invaded by the French in 1499 and the Sforza family forced to flee. He may have
visited Venice before returning to Florence. During his time in Florence, he
painted several portraits, but the only one that survives is the famous 'Mona
Lisa' (1503-1506).
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