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Leonardo DaVinci & The Last Supper
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kas
Sep 6, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/6/99
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THE LAST SUPPER
>>Author Unknown
>>
>Leonardo Da Vinci, a noted Italian artist painted the Last Supper; and the
>time engaged for it's completion was seven years. The figures representing
>the twelve Apostles and Christ himself were painted from living persons.
>The life-model for the painting of the figure of Jesus was chosen first.
>When it was decided that Da Vinci would paint this great picture, hundreds
>and hundreds of young men were carefully viewed in an endeavor to find a
>face and personality exhibiting innocence and beauty, free from the scars
>and signs of dissipation caused by sin.
>>
>Finally, after weeks of laborious search, a young man nineteen years of
>age, was selected as a model for the portrayal of Christ. For six months
>DaVinci worked on the production of this leading character of his famous
>painting.
>>
>During the next six years DaVinci continued his labors on this sublime work
>of art. One by one fitting persons were chosen to represent each of the
>eleven Apostles; space being left for the painting of the figure
>representing Judas Iscariot as the final task of this masterpiece. This
>was the Apostle, you remember, who betrayed his Lord for thirty pieces of
>silver, worth in our present day currency $1696.
>>
>For weeks Da Vinci searched for a man with a hard, callous face, with a
>countenance marked by scars of avarice, deceit, hypocrisy, and crime; a
>face that would delineate a character who would betray his best friend.
>>
>After many discouraging experiences in searching for the type of person
>required to represent Judas, word came to Da Vinci that a man whose
>appearance fully met his requirements had been found in a dungeon in Rome,
>sentenced to die for a life of crime and murder.
>>
>Da Vinci made the trip to Rome at once, and this man was brought out from
>his imprisonment in the dungeon and led out into the light of the sun.
>There DaVinci saw before him a dark, swarthy man; his long shaggy and
unkempt hair sprawled over his face, which betrayed a character of
viciousness and complete ruin. At last the famous painter had found the
person he wanted to represent the character of Judas in his painting.
>>
>By special permission from the king, this prisoner was carried to Milan
>where the picture was being painted. For months he sat before Da Vinci at
>appointed hours each day as the gifted artist diligently continued his task
>of transmitting, to his painting, this base character representing the
>traitor and betrayer of our Savior. As he finished his last stroke, he
>turned to the guards and said, "I have finished. You may take the
>prisoner away."
>>
>As the guards were leading their prisoner away, he suddenly broke loose
>from their control and rushed up to Da Vinci, crying as he did so, "O, Da
>Vinci, look at me! Do you not know who I am?" Da Vinci, with the trained
>eyes of a great character student, carefully
>scrutinized the man upon whose face he had constantly gazed for six months
>and replied, "No, I have never seen you in my life until you were brought
>before me out of the dungeon in Rome."
>>
>Then, lifting his eyes toward heaven, the prisoner said, "Oh, God, have I
>fallen so low?" Then turning his face to the painter he cried, "Leonardo
>DaVinci! Look at me again for I am the same man you painted just seven years
ago as the figure of Christ."
>>
>This is the true story of the painting of The Last Supper. It teaches so
>strongly the lesson of the effects of right or wrong thinking on the life of
>an individual. Here was a young man whose character was so pure,
>unspoiled by the sins of the world, that he represented a countenance of
>innocence and beauty fit to be used for the painting of a representation of
>Christ.
>>Author Unknown
>>
>Leonardo Da Vinci, a noted Italian artist painted the Last Supper; and the
>time engaged for it's completion was seven years. The figures representing
>the twelve Apostles and Christ himself were painted from living persons.
>The life-model for the painting of the figure of Jesus was chosen first.
>When it was decided that Da Vinci would paint this great picture, hundreds
>and hundreds of young men were carefully viewed in an endeavor to find a
>face and personality exhibiting innocence and beauty, free from the scars
>and signs of dissipation caused by sin.
>>
>Finally, after weeks of laborious search, a young man nineteen years of
>age, was selected as a model for the portrayal of Christ. For six months
>DaVinci worked on the production of this leading character of his famous
>painting.
>>
>During the next six years DaVinci continued his labors on this sublime work
>of art. One by one fitting persons were chosen to represent each of the
>eleven Apostles; space being left for the painting of the figure
>representing Judas Iscariot as the final task of this masterpiece. This
>was the Apostle, you remember, who betrayed his Lord for thirty pieces of
>silver, worth in our present day currency $1696.
>>
>For weeks Da Vinci searched for a man with a hard, callous face, with a
>countenance marked by scars of avarice, deceit, hypocrisy, and crime; a
>face that would delineate a character who would betray his best friend.
>>
>After many discouraging experiences in searching for the type of person
>required to represent Judas, word came to Da Vinci that a man whose
>appearance fully met his requirements had been found in a dungeon in Rome,
>sentenced to die for a life of crime and murder.
>>
>Da Vinci made the trip to Rome at once, and this man was brought out from
>his imprisonment in the dungeon and led out into the light of the sun.
>There DaVinci saw before him a dark, swarthy man; his long shaggy and
unkempt hair sprawled over his face, which betrayed a character of
viciousness and complete ruin. At last the famous painter had found the
person he wanted to represent the character of Judas in his painting.
>>
>By special permission from the king, this prisoner was carried to Milan
>where the picture was being painted. For months he sat before Da Vinci at
>appointed hours each day as the gifted artist diligently continued his task
>of transmitting, to his painting, this base character representing the
>traitor and betrayer of our Savior. As he finished his last stroke, he
>turned to the guards and said, "I have finished. You may take the
>prisoner away."
>>
>As the guards were leading their prisoner away, he suddenly broke loose
>from their control and rushed up to Da Vinci, crying as he did so, "O, Da
>Vinci, look at me! Do you not know who I am?" Da Vinci, with the trained
>eyes of a great character student, carefully
>scrutinized the man upon whose face he had constantly gazed for six months
>and replied, "No, I have never seen you in my life until you were brought
>before me out of the dungeon in Rome."
>>
>Then, lifting his eyes toward heaven, the prisoner said, "Oh, God, have I
>fallen so low?" Then turning his face to the painter he cried, "Leonardo
>DaVinci! Look at me again for I am the same man you painted just seven years
ago as the figure of Christ."
>>
>This is the true story of the painting of The Last Supper. It teaches so
>strongly the lesson of the effects of right or wrong thinking on the life of
>an individual. Here was a young man whose character was so pure,
>unspoiled by the sins of the world, that he represented a countenance of
>innocence and beauty fit to be used for the painting of a representation of
>Christ.
But within seven years, following the thoughts of sin and a life of
crime, he was changed into a perfect picture of the most traitorous
character ever known in the history of the world.
>
This sent chills down my spine when I read it. Food for thought.
blessings
kas
Kimberly & Jacob
Sep 6, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/6/99
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Jeanlbs
Sep 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/9/99
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This was one of the most interesting things I have read in a very long time.
Thanks for sharing.
Jean
Thanks for sharing.
Jean
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