The Last Supper - 13th Nov

I think I would be doing some snooping around Leonardo's work often soon as his works are incredible and I'm particularly interested in knowing more details about them (especially on the conspiracies and probable hidden meanings behind his works). Therefore, today, I've decided to find out more on one of his more famous paintings today which would be:

THE LAST SUPPER

There are in fact a few renderings of: The Last Supper, but the one by Leonardo da Vinci looks like:-

It is actually the depiction of Jesus Christ sitting and having a meal with his 12 disciples. This is also when Jesus decides to reveal that he will be betrayed by one of them, which he does not name. In my opinion, this scene is when the whole group is discussing after Jesus breaks the news to everyone. As you can see, some of the disciples think its absurd while some are trying to console Jesus. There are also some shocked reactions. Overall you would say that this painting has a lot of emotions and engraves deeply into the viewer.

And so, here are some of the theories on this painting:-

1> Jesus Is not supposed to be as depicted
Well, according HERE, Jesus was a Jew from the middle eastern side and therefore, should not have fair skin as depicted. Besides that, the long flowing hair style actually belong to the Italians during the Rennaisance age, thus, this was not the original looks of Jesus Christ. This is in fact just a matter of style and in the painting, in this scene, there is no argument that it is indeed Jesus Christ and therefore it was only a matter of artist interpretation.

2> Mary Magdalene

Some say the figure at the right hand side of Jesus, with long hair and feminine features is actually Mary Magdalene while a number also claims that it is not. Either way it is actually John the Apostle or Mary Magdalene. Some say that John appears to look like a female as leonardo has a fascniation for "beautiful" men like Leonardo's male disciple depicted in his painting: Salai. Eventhough Salai was a male, Leonardo often paint this student of his to be effiminate which therefore this matter is still in dispute.




I think I'll stop here at the moment.
You can in fact view the high-resolution image of the original painting HERE