Comparison Of The Last Supper And Tintoretto

For this assignment I decided to compare two paintings of the same theme from XVI Century Renaissance of Italy both titled The Last Supper, one by Leonardo da Vinci and the other by Tintoretto. The paintings were created one hundred years apart and as such had noticeable differences in technique and style. Of these differences, the use of light and its effects on the works’ meaning is the theme of this paper. Finished in 1498, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper shows a full frontal view of the biblical story of Christ’s last meal in a room with the twelve Apostles. The light enters the room from the left front side of the picture as if from a large open door, and since it comes from the front, it provides light to all the characters’ faces