At the Last Supper
"And yet behold, the hand of the one who is to betray me is with me on the table;" (Luke 22:21, NABRE)
The reaction of four of the twelve apostles after this announcement of Jesus Christ: on the far left, Andrew, who seems most astonished; next to him, his brother Peter, who reaches for a knife in anger; in front of him, the traitor Judas Iscariot, who holds a bag full of money in his hand, the reward for his betrayal; on the far right, the youthful John, the favorite disciple of Jesus, whom the angry Peter pleads with, but who does not seem to respond.
Detail of a life-sized copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Minoritenkirche in Vienna. "It is a mosaic made by the Roman mosaic artist Giacomo Raffaelli, commissioned by Napoleon I in 1809 [...]." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoritenkirche_(Vienna)
Leonardo's original, created in 1495-98, is a mural painting in the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
"Leonardo reportedly used the likenesses of people in and around Milan as inspiration for the painting's figures." But it took him a long time, it seems, to find a model for the head of Judas, for which only the very worst man of Milan was good enough. About the model for Judas the Austrian writer Leo Perutz wrote the novel "Leonardo's Judas" (posthumously, 1959). I just finished reading this highly recommendable novel and that is why I am doing this research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Abendmahl_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)
At the Last Supper
"And yet behold, the hand of the one who is to betray me is with me on the table;" (Luke 22:21, NABRE)
The reaction of four of the twelve apostles after this announcement of Jesus Christ: on the far left, Andrew, who seems most astonished; next to him, his brother Peter, who reaches for a knife in anger; in front of him, the traitor Judas Iscariot, who holds a bag full of money in his hand, the reward for his betrayal; on the far right, the youthful John, the favorite disciple of Jesus, whom the angry Peter pleads with, but who does not seem to respond.
Detail of a life-sized copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Minoritenkirche in Vienna. "It is a mosaic made by the Roman mosaic artist Giacomo Raffaelli, commissioned by Napoleon I in 1809 [...]." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoritenkirche_(Vienna)
Leonardo's original, created in 1495-98, is a mural painting in the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
"Leonardo reportedly used the likenesses of people in and around Milan as inspiration for the painting's figures." But it took him a long time, it seems, to find a model for the head of Judas, for which only the very worst man of Milan was good enough. About the model for Judas the Austrian writer Leo Perutz wrote the novel "Leonardo's Judas" (posthumously, 1959). I just finished reading this highly recommendable novel and that is why I am doing this research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Abendmahl_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)