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Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper

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The Renaissance was an era of “rebirth.” The plague just wiped away most most of the population, and once it was controlled people began to live freely. This was what they considered a new way of life. The new way of life exposed the people to new arts, literature, and music.
The history of art in the Italian Renaissance was the start of perspective (Dowling), proportions, body image, and religious beliefs (Renaissance Art). The Renaissance period was also a big leap into new inventions and greater knowledge. Art in the Middle ages and early Renaissance compared to art in the Italian Renaissance was seen as very unproportional and not so lifelike (Dowling). A piece of artwork in 1490 that portrays proportion, perspective, and body image is the “Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo Da Vinci. This known piece of art was a large influence that began a hunger of motivation to learn the knowledge of proportion and …show more content…

“The Last Supper” was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci from 1495-1498; Leonardo painted on a dry plastered wall with an oil and tempera mixture (Boomer). Unfortunately, it began peeling almost immediately (Boomer). The painting’s restoration was done by many people throughout the years but Pinin Brambillia Barcilionwas the most recent, she completed and opened “The Last Supper” to the public by May of 1999 (Last Supper). This painting captured the moment in which Jesus announces to the apostles that he knows one of them will betray him (Last Supper). The apostles are captured in their sense of astonishment immediately after this announcement(Last Supper). It was common to see Biblical stories painted everywhere because the Duke at this time wanted to express the feelings and emotions during the times in the Bible. Paintings like this one were also done because it was the rise of Catholicism in the renaissance. Religion also ties in with Music and literature in the Italian Renaissance

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