Last Supper Leonardo Da Vinci's Term Paper

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In conclusion, Heinrich Wolfflin, an art critic of the early 1950's, points out that Leonardo's the Last Supper exhibits all of the classical elements of Western art and those of the High Renaissance. Also, the three major trends of 15th century painting, being monumentality and mathematically ordered space at the expense of movement and the freedom of movement at the expense of monumentality and controlled space, are all harmonized and balanced in the Last Supper which stands as the penultimate example of Leonardo da Vinci's long career as a painter and artisan.
This painting also symbolizes the synthesis of the artistic developments of the 15th century and represents one of the first artistic statements of the High Renaissance style in the form of a religious icon which tells the tale of a man caught between physical life and death and the demands of a jealous and often mysterious celestial father......

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