The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) Judas, and that if he could not find a face corresponding with what he had in mind, he would use the features of the prior who complained. "The Last Supper" specifically portrays the reaction given by each apostle when Jesus said one of them would betray him. All twelve apostles have different reactions to the news, with various degrees of anger and shock. The apostles are identified from a manuscript ("The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" p. 232) with their names found in the 19th century. (Before this, only Judas, Peter, John and Jesus were positively identified.) From left to
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (, "Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci", in literal translation) is the second novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published in 1900 by "Mir Bozhy" magazine, then released as a separate edition 1901. The novel constitutes the second part of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy (1895-1907), started by the writer's debut novel "The Death of the Gods". Merezhkovsky started working upon the second novel right after the first one, "The Death of Gods", was finished, submerging himself in studying the history of Renaissance. By this time he had the vision