Mysteries Leonardo
Posted 16-08-2009 at 18:44 by Konstantin
Good = Evil
Creating a fresco "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci for a long time searching for the ideal model. Jesus must embody the Good, and Judas, who had decided to bring him to this meal - is evil.
Leonardo's many times interrupted the work, going to find sitters. One day, listening to the choir, he saw in one of the young singers of the perfect image of Christ, and inviting him to his studio, made him a few sketches and studies.
Three years. "Last Supper" was almost complete, but Leonardo did not find a suitable artist's model for Judas. Cardinal, who was responsible for painting the cathedral, the artist hurried, demanding that the mural was finished as soon as possible.
And after a long search, the artist saw lying in the gutter man - young, but prematurely decrepit, dirty, drunken and ragged. The time for studies has not been, and Leonardo ordered his aides to deliver it directly to the cathedral. With great difficulty he dragged back and put on his feet. The man did not really understand what was happening, and where it is, and Leonardo impressed on the canvas face of a man steeped in sin. When he finished his work, a beggar, who by this time had a little recovered, went to the canvas and shouted:
- I've already seen this picture before!
- When? - Leonardo surprised.
- Three years ago, even before I lost everything. At that time, when I sang in the choir, and my life was full of dreams, some artist wrote to me to Christ ...
According to another legend, dissatisfied slow Leonardo, Prior of the monastery insistently demanded of him, that he soon finished his work. "It seemed strange to see that Leonardo was a whole half of the day is lost in meditation. He wanted the artist did not let the brush of the hands, like how not stop working in the garden. Not content with this, he complained to the duke, and so began pestering him what he had to send for Leonardo and to the delicate form to request him to get to work in every way while giving to understand that all he was doing at the insistence of the Prior. " Started a conversation with the Duke of common artistic themes, Leonardo then pointed out to him that he was close to the end of the painting and that he is to write only two heads - Christ and the traitor Judas. "This last head, he would like to search, but in the end, if he can not find anything better, he is ready to use the head of the Prior himself, so obsessive and indiscreet. This remark is quite amused by the Duke, telling him that he was a thousand times right. In this manner the poor confused Prior continued to adjust the work in the garden and left alone Leonardo, who graduated from the head of Judas, to be true embodiment of treachery and inhumanity. "
Creating a fresco "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci for a long time searching for the ideal model. Jesus must embody the Good, and Judas, who had decided to bring him to this meal - is evil.
Leonardo's many times interrupted the work, going to find sitters. One day, listening to the choir, he saw in one of the young singers of the perfect image of Christ, and inviting him to his studio, made him a few sketches and studies.
Three years. "Last Supper" was almost complete, but Leonardo did not find a suitable artist's model for Judas. Cardinal, who was responsible for painting the cathedral, the artist hurried, demanding that the mural was finished as soon as possible.
And after a long search, the artist saw lying in the gutter man - young, but prematurely decrepit, dirty, drunken and ragged. The time for studies has not been, and Leonardo ordered his aides to deliver it directly to the cathedral. With great difficulty he dragged back and put on his feet. The man did not really understand what was happening, and where it is, and Leonardo impressed on the canvas face of a man steeped in sin. When he finished his work, a beggar, who by this time had a little recovered, went to the canvas and shouted:
- I've already seen this picture before!
- When? - Leonardo surprised.
- Three years ago, even before I lost everything. At that time, when I sang in the choir, and my life was full of dreams, some artist wrote to me to Christ ...
According to another legend, dissatisfied slow Leonardo, Prior of the monastery insistently demanded of him, that he soon finished his work. "It seemed strange to see that Leonardo was a whole half of the day is lost in meditation. He wanted the artist did not let the brush of the hands, like how not stop working in the garden. Not content with this, he complained to the duke, and so began pestering him what he had to send for Leonardo and to the delicate form to request him to get to work in every way while giving to understand that all he was doing at the insistence of the Prior. " Started a conversation with the Duke of common artistic themes, Leonardo then pointed out to him that he was close to the end of the painting and that he is to write only two heads - Christ and the traitor Judas. "This last head, he would like to search, but in the end, if he can not find anything better, he is ready to use the head of the Prior himself, so obsessive and indiscreet. This remark is quite amused by the Duke, telling him that he was a thousand times right. In this manner the poor confused Prior continued to adjust the work in the garden and left alone Leonardo, who graduated from the head of Judas, to be true embodiment of treachery and inhumanity. "
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