The Lat Supper

The Last Supper

If you take a few seconds to look at one of the most controversial paintings in history, from Leonardo DaVinci "The Last Supper" you will find nothing more than great strokes of painting and coloring. Although, Leonardo DaVinci used Fresco as described in "The Last Supper- A study of the painting from Leonardo DaVinci" instead of more of a durable paint; this painting has caused many painter to be on top of it to always be restore and try to maintain its true appearance. Now, it may not be the original painting but from what its being preserved it may be the only vision of art from someone so extraordinary as DaVinci to have come up with such a real and emotional painting to look at. As years went by, many started to doubt its true Christian meaning to how it was requested to be done, as DaVinci created this painting. According to Shelley Esaak, a writer from about.com Leonardo DaVinci used real people to his imagination of what all the disciples from Jesus and Mary seem to be. From all these years that passed by, the painting has been devour and pass judgment to what its true meaning of the painting is supposed to be; as to some it may just seem as the bible says, gods disciples, Judas betrayal and the washing of his feet (to symbolized that they were all equal).

Countless Catholics and Christians see this painting as a symbolism of their religion; which from the beginning it's Leonardo DaVinci's way of seeing what is described to him. This was also an opportunity to make money for himself since he worked for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, for nearly eighteen years (S. Esaak). Many from this time saw this painting as just one of the greatest art work that DaVinci had created and finished, since he was known to leave all his project have way done. An interesting way that Lisa Shea points out to all her readers in her website is:

"Part of why Leonardo's version was so famous immediately was that he had chosen a very unusual way to portray the scene. Pretty much every painting of the Last Supper up until now had involved Jesus blessing the bread and wine - a nice, serene scene. Judas was always shown off in a corner, sulking, away from the rest of the disciples. This is what the Dominicans thought they were getting. When they instead got this "violent" version with the disciples all screaming and yelling, the monks were not exactly pleased. It created a lot of publicity"

His choosing of pale and vivid colors at the same time was remarkably amazing, in a way that it's still talked about. The painting holds many different opinions on how these men and women were positioned to Jesus, to find what its true meaning of why Leonardo DaVinci created such a way of which in the bible it makes no difference.

As many look into this painting, they seem to come up with different ways to make this more and more about, how Jesus had a lover. Such ways on viewing this painting has caused for movies and documentaries to come to the light for people to have an understanding of these artist ways of thinking. One of these such movies would be "The DaVinci Code" which describes a murder inside the Louvre and clues in DaVinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years (The internet Movie Database); the presentation of this movie caused many Christians to be shaky on their beliefs of what once was taught to them from early childhood. This movie came from a novel made by Dan Brown who many took interest on from the beginning. Some may call this one of the best book ever written and some may just call it plain fun (Greer W. 2003). IN this book many of catholic symbolic come about such as the painting from Leonardo DaVinci and some take it as its true meaning but some are left in the open now knowing what to believe of this painting that from