Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper

Leonardo Da Vinci was among just a handful of the most highly skilled artists and minds of all time. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy and would become known later in life as the “Renaissance man” for the remarkable artwork he would create. Leonardo would never enroll into a school and was taught basic English and mathematics at home for only several years in his early childhood. Later in his childhood, Leonardo would indulge in an apprenticeship with artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, where he would learn a wide variety of commoner skills such as leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting, sculpting and metal work. The first of many artworks by Leonardo would arrive in 1473, of a landscape drawing he called “Arno Valley”. Once Leonardo

The “Last Supper” was created using what was then experimental pigments applied onto a dry plaster wall, otherwise known as tempera and oil on plaster. This would come to be a mistake as the artworks would not hold the test of time due to not using the traditional frescos method. In this piece, it illustrated a coffered ceiling along side four pairs of tapestries. Judas, Peter and John would all play a key role in what Leonardo was trying to depict through the stroke of his brush. Judas would strike the match in the events leading to Jesus’s death. Peter then led the church and John announced the Second Coming and the Last Judgment. The artwork started aging in ways such as flaking and peeling before Leonardo was even done creating it. The “Last Supper” would later be vandalized and bombed, but later restored. Today, it barely resembles the first pigments used. This painting would concentrate Leonardo from 1495 until