The original is a large picture, 29% feet long, and
14 feet high. The engravings have made us familiar with the famous scene. Christ, with his twelve disciples, is seated at a table in a plainly furnished room whose three sides, with three windows in the rear wall, present an illustration of Leonardo’s perfect perspective. In the central position is the Savior, the light of the middle window serving as a halo. He has just announced, “One of you shall betray me.” The effect of this declaration has thrown the twelve into violent agitation. The marvel is that although there is intense agitation, there is also the dignity of repose in each of the four groups which the artist has arranged in the picture. Christ is in the center of the picture, apart from each group, but every line in the room and every look and gesture of every man in the room lead the eyes to Christ. “In the nobility of the faces of all save Judas, in his aspect of cruel and impenitent resolve,” writes a critic, “art has spoken its loftiest work. In the old pictures Judas had been isolated on the other side of the table, with his back to the spectator, an improbable and inartistic arrangement. Leonardo puts him amongst the most favored disciples, between St. Peter and St. John, but he accomplishes the same result by separating him from the others by causing him to lean forward upon the table, facing his Master with implacable gaze as he clutches the moneybag and overturns the saltcellar. . . . Three of the figures are standing, but they lean forward so gracefully that their heads scarcely rise above those of their seated companions, and they only accentuate the hannony of the lines.”
ต้นฉบับเป็นภาพขนาดใหญ่ ยาว เท้า 29% และ 14 feet high. The engravings have made us familiar with the famous scene. Christ, with his twelve disciples, is seated at a table in a plainly furnished room whose three sides, with three windows in the rear wall, present an illustration of Leonardo’s perfect perspective. In the central position is the Savior, the light of the middle window serving as a halo. He has just announced, “One of you shall betray me.” The effect of this declaration has thrown the twelve into violent agitation. The marvel is that although there is intense agitation, there is also the dignity of repose in each of the four groups which the artist has arranged in the picture. Christ is in the center of the picture, apart from each group, but every line in the room and every look and gesture of every man in the room lead the eyes to Christ. “In the nobility of the faces of all save Judas, in his aspect of cruel and impenitent resolve,” writes a critic, “art has spoken its loftiest work. In the old pictures Judas had been isolated on the other side of the table, with his back to the spectator, an improbable and inartistic arrangement. Leonardo puts him amongst the most favored disciples, between St. Peter and St. John, but he accomplishes the same result by separating him from the others by causing him to lean forward upon the table, facing his Master with implacable gaze as he clutches the moneybag and overturns the saltcellar. . . . Three of the figures are standing, but they lean forward so gracefully that their heads scarcely rise above those of their seated companions, and they only accentuate the hannony of the lines.”
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