European Renaissance and Reformation 1350-1600: Arts Research Article from World Eras

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European Renaissance and Reformation 1350-1600: Arts Research Article from World Eras

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Leonardo also executed in Milan, for the Dominicans of Santa Maria delle. Grazie, a marvelous and beautiful painting of the Last Supper. Having depicted the heads of the apostles full of splendor and majesty, he deliberately left the head of Christ unfinished, convinced he would fail to give it the divine spirituality it demand's. This all but finished work has ever since been held in the greatest veneration by the Milanese and others. In it Leonardo brilliantly succeeded in envisaging and reproducing the tormented anxiety of the apostles to know who had betrayed their master; so in their faces one can read the emotions of love, dis may, and anger or rather sorrow, at their failure to grasp the meaning of Christ. And this admiration than the contrasted spectacle of the obstinacy, hatred, and...

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