The Last Supper: A Comparison Of Leonardo's And Rubens

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Differences between Leonardo’s and Rubens’s paintings of The Last Supper also arise from their layout of the events. In Leonardo’s Last Supper the layout is largely horizontal. The large table is seen in the foreground of the image with all of the figures behind it. The painting is largely symmetrical with the same number of figures on either side of Jesus. There is a one-point perspective in the painting with the focal point on Jesus’ head. This layout is much different than the layout seen in Tintoretto’s Last Supper. In Tintoretto’s painting there is much less of a structured layout. The large table is diagonal and seemingly splits the image into two separate parts. There is no symmetry seen in Tintoretto’s painting. There is one-point perspective,

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