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The Last Supper
The moment after Christ announces, “One of you will betray me,” rendered as waves of human reaction.
Painted on the refectory wall of the Dominican convent, so the friars dined beneath the Lord's table.
Leonardo's experimental technique on dry plaster began flaking within decades; the work survived Allied bombing in 1943 behind sandbags.
All perspective lines converge at Christ's right temple, making him the still point of the composition.
Groups of three
The apostles fall into four triads, echoing the Trinity; Christ forms a stable triangle at the centre.
Judas in shadow
Alone his face is darkened, clutching the purse of silver, recoiling from the light.
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain work; reproduction licence as listed at source.
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