Actual setting of “The Last Supper” - Powerful message of Jesus’s true love

It took about three years (1495-1498) for the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci to paint The Last Supper.

The painting measures 460 cm × 880 cm (180 in × 350 in) and is located on the end wall of the dining hall of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

The Last Supper represents the scene of Jesus with the twelve Apostles after Jesus told them that one of them would betray him before sunrise, as it is said in the Gospel of John. Twelve of his disciples reacted to the news with different degrees of anger, horror, and shock.

The names of his twelve disciples could be identified when Leonardo da Vinci’s working notes and some sketches were discovered in the 19th century.

From left to right in Leonardo da Vinci’s legendary painting, the characters depicted in the Last Supper painting are:

Group 1 – Bartholomew, James - son of Alphaeus, and Andrew are all surprised.
Group 2 – Peter; John appears to swoon and leans towards Peter; Judas Iscariot holds a bag with money and grabs the bread simultaneously with Jesus.
Jesus - In the center
Group 3 – Thomas raises his index finger; James the Greater with his arms in the air; and Philip.
Group 4 – Simon the Zealot; Matthew and Jude Thaddeus turn toward Simon.

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is one of the most representative and enigmatic masterpieces in the history of world painting.

Till today there have been different explanations for those mysteries. This video shows you one of these explanations.