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
Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci publications and travelling exhibitions in Italy and abroad, conferences, educational projects for schools, work in progress with artists, researches and presentations ("Sulle tracce di Leonardo", "Leonardo cinquecento anni dopo","Vinci e Leonardo", "La Toscana nell'arte del XX secolo", "Capolavori del mito","Processi al mito di Leonardo","Il Codice da Vinci di Dan Brown: vero/falso")... Among its projects, that to take back to Italy the Codex Hammer/Leicester (then bought by Bill Gates) and the Tavola Doria. More recently (in April 2016) it presented in the Teatro di Vinci the discovery, after decades of research, of the living descendants of Leonardo, the new genalogical tree