A new critical vision of works of intertextual artworks with Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper as an introduction to visual culture

A new critical vision of works of intertextual artworks with Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper as an introduction to visual culture



Research Summary

The painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci on one of the walls of the refectory in the Monastery of Santa Maria in Milan, Italy is one of the most famous paintings in the history of art to this day. According to the New Testament, the Last Supper in the Bible is the Jewish Passover dinner, and it was the last thing that Jesus celebrated with his disciples, in which Jesus presented a summary of his teachings, before he was arrested, tried, and crucified. This event is considered extremely important in the Christian faith, and represents a source for many Modern and contemporary artwork. From this standpoint, and considering that the artistic work is an open creative text, not closed in on itself, there is a wide scope for the overlap of texts that are composed of each other, formed by the totality of relationships that link them to the surface structure according to the vocabulary of the work, and its content, which is subject to the concept of intertextuality, which is one of the broad concepts that have formed the focus of research interest. Contemporary cultural and artistic, through studying and analyzing the aesthetics of composition, revealing symbolic connotations, plastic vocabulary, and openness to interpretation.