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RE: Drawing like a pro - 92, Masterclass - The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, part I: Analyzing the drawing
Do you think he knew all this when painting or it was a happy conididence
Do you think he knew all this when painting or it was a happy conididence
Hi Sarah, glad to see you again!
Happy coincidence? Of course, no.
Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446), a noted architect, rediscovered the principles of linear perspective, known to the Greeks and Romans but buried during the European Middle Ages.
Da Vinci, born in 1452 (6 years after Brunelleschi's death), around the age of 14 became a student and study boy in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, who was the leading Florentine painter and sculptor of his day.
Thus, when Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper, he knew and applied everything he had learned since his adolescence.
In any case, it is unthinkable that someone could do something similar with all those geometric and esoteric relationships and this symmetrical perfection by coincidence.