Leonardo's Last Supper Analysis

Leonardo's Last Supper differs from paintings of the Early Renaissance because he didn't sacrifice a realness to his portraits in order to capture the essence of holy figures. He did not require the use of a halo to highlight Jesus, and to tell us his work was the last supper. Our artist used a vanishing point just behind Christ and an equilateral triangle within his body. Christ is framed within the panes of the windows. Leonardo differs in the manner that his depiction is simplified, not overly decorated or with an empty table. Other artworks had Judas on the opposite side of the table from Jesus, Leo fused him in the group with the other apostles and used the table as a blockade to separate the viewer from the scene. Its not unknown that