Leonardo Da Vinci And Pedro Berruguete's The Last Supper

Since the background sky has dark, grey clouds, the light is most likely artificial light most likely from the left side of the room. This is because the shadows of Mary and from the feet of the table are both going in a diagonal direction towards the right corner of the room. You can also see the shadows from the heads of the men on the brick wall. This lighting and the aging of the painting creates colors that are duller. The painting is symmetrical because there are three columns on each side, six men on each side of Jesus and the tile placement. Even though they are not exact distances apart from Jesus, Peter and Bartholomew both have the same gestures and are the second closest to Jesus. There are also two men at each side of the table …show more content…
Both Leonardo da Vinci and Pedro Berruguete have their own style of depicting this scene. Da Vinci’s is set in a large, symmetric, rectangular room which looks out to the mountains and sky. His work is more symmetric than Berruguete’s because there are four groups of three on each side of Jesus and the room is perfectly symmetrical. The seating arrangement for both works are much different from each other. Judas is on the far right in Berruguete’s while Judas sits two seats away from Jesus in Da Vinci’s painting. Berruguete also put in Mary on the floor, but in Da Vinci’s we are not sure if the person to the right of Jesus is Mary or John. They both have the same style in the type of clothing, but Da Vinci’s style of painting is freer than Berruguete’s solid lines and rectilinear shapes. Since Da Vinci was more of a Renaissance artist, his illusion of depth goes farther back than Berruguete’s. Da Vinci also has a specific vanishing point in the painting which is at Jesus’ head whereas Berruguete does not have a vanishing point at all. Even though these two depictions of the Last Supper were painted almost around the same time, they look quite different from each