"Whose painting of ""The Last Supper"" represents Jesus as transparent to sun light, and incorporates a modernistic window through which islands can be seen, surmounted by the chest arms and neck of a nude male figure?"
The Sacrament of the Last Supper The Sacrament of the Last Supper The Sacrament of the Last Supper is a painting by Salvador Dalí. Completed in 1955, after nine months of work, it remains one of his most popular compositions. Since its arrival at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1955, it replaced Renoir's "A Girl with a Watering Can" as the most popular piece in the museum. "The Sacrament of the Last Supper" was completed during Dalí's post-World War II era, which is characterized by his increased interest in science, optical illusion and religion. During this time he became a devout Catholic
The Sacrament of the Last Supper of the Last Supper" depicts thirteen figures gathered around a table. Assuming this painting is in line with traditional symbolism the figures are Christ and his 12 Apostles. Christ is the centre figure in the painting placed directly on the horizon line. Directly behind him on the intersection point of perspective rests the source of sunlight making the Christ figure the focus of the painting. He points upward directing the viewer’s attention to a dominating transparent torso with arms stretched outward spanning the width of the picture plane. The scene’s setting is within a transparent dodecahedron or twelve-sided space as