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hi folks,

this is a nice article that relates how time allows us to be what we are. its

only us, our thoughts and the atmosphere around us that makes or destroys .

 

 

The Last Supper was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, a noted Italian artist;

and the time engaged for its completion was seven years. The figures

representing the twelve Apostles and Christ himself were painted from

living persons. The life-model for the painting of the figure of Jesus

was chosen first.

 

When it was decided that Da Vinci would paint this great picture,

hundreds and hundreds of young men were carefully viewed, in an endeavor to

find a

face and personality exhibiting innocence and beauty, free from the scars

and signs of dissipation caused by sin.

 

Finally, after weeks of laborious searching, a young man nineteen years of

age, was selected as a model for the portrayal of Christ. For six months,

Da Vinci worked on the reproduction of this leading character in his

famous painting. During the next six years, Da Vinci continued his labors

on

this sublimework of art. One by one, fitting persons were chosen to

represent

each of the eleven Apostles; space being left for the painting of the

figure

representing Judas Iscariot, as the final task of this masterpiece. This

was the

Apostle, you remember, who betrayed his Lord for thirty pieces of silver,

worth

$16.96 in our present day currency.

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For weeks, Da Vinci searched for a man with a hard callous face, with a

countenance marked by scars of avarice, deceit, hypocrisy, and crime;

a face that would delineate a character, who would betray his best friend.

 

After many discouraging experiences, in searching for the type of person

required to represent Judas, word came to Da Vinci that a man, whose

appearance fully met his requirements, had been found in a dungeon in

Rome, sentenced to die for a life of crime and murder.

Da Vinci made the trip to Rome at once, and this man was brought out from

his imprisonment in the dungeon and led out into the light of the sun.

There Da Vinci saw before him a dark, swarthy man; his long, shaggy and

unkempt

hair sprawled over his face, which betrayed a character of viciousness

and complete ruin. At last, the famous painter had found the person he

wanted to represent the character of Judas in his painting.

 

By special permission from the king, this prisoner was carried to Milan

where the picture was being painted; and for months he sat before Da Vinci

at

appointed hours each day, as the gifted artist diligently continued his

task of transmitting to his painting this base character in the picture

representing the traitor and betrayer of our savior. As he finished his

last stroke, he

turned to the guards and said, " I have finished. You may take the prisoner

away. "

As the guards were leading their prisoner away, he suddenly broke loose

from their control and rushed up to Da Vinci, crying as he did so, " Oh, Da

Vinci, look at me! Do you not know who I am? "

 

Da Vinci, with the trained eyes of a great character student, carefully

scrutinized the man, upon whose face he had constantly gazed for six

months and replied, " No, I had never seen you in my life, until you were

brought before me out of the dungeon in Rome. "

 

Then, lifting his eyes toward heaven, the prisoner said, " Oh, God, have I

fallen so low? " Then turning toward the painter he cried, " Leonardo Da

Vinci! Look at me again, for I am the same man you painted just seven years

ago

as the figure of Christ. "

Many lessons can be learned from this true story of the painting of

The Last Supper. This is a story of how we often perceive others - how

easily we overlook the Christ within the people we meet, and judge by

outward appearances. This also strongly teaches the lesson of the

effects of right or wrong thinking, on the life of

an individual. Here was a young man whose character was so pure and

unspoiled by the sins of the world, that he presented a countenance of

innocence and beauty fit to be used for the painting of a representation

of Christ. But within seven years, following the thoughts of sin and a

life of crime, he was changed into a perfect picture of the most traitorous

character ever known in the history of the world.

 

 

hope you enjoyed reading it and at the same time got the message.

 

 

" Silence reveals yourself to you!

Words reveal yourself to others,

sometimes wrongly!! "

 

Prashanth Krishna

Future Software Ltd,

Chennai 35.

91 44 4330550

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