Volume 49, Number 12 · July 18, 2002
Leo's Last Supper
By Andrew Butterfield
Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
Leo Steinberg
Zone Books, 317 pp., $43.00
Leonardo's Last Supper was unlike any image of the scene ever made before. In most earlier paintings, Christ and the Apostles are lined up along the table and appear relatively inert and inexpressive. Their gestures are restrained, their faces impassive; there is little sign of communication between them. In some versions, the participants look almost sleepy or bored. If one did not know, one could not tell that the climax of a great drama has begun.
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