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Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; Year: 1898. Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectLeonardo__da_Vinci__1452_1519 ) .Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___W__Heinemann ) New York, C. Scribner's sons ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_New_York__C__Scribner_s_sons ) .Contributing Library: University of California Libraries ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries ) .Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive ) ...View Book Page: Book Viewer ( stream/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n277/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia01munt ) .View All Images: All Images From Book .Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n277/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.sion. This sketchshows through how-many stages the com-position passed beforecompletion. These drawingfs arefollowed by notes, inwhich Leonardo indi-cates the attitude heintends to give to eachapostle: One, in theact of drinking, putsdown his glass, andturns his head to thespeaker ; another, twist-ing his fingers together,turns to his companion,knitting his eyebrows ;another, opening hishands, and turnino- thepalms towards the spectator, shrugs his sholders, his mouth ex-pressing the liveliest surprise ; another whispers in the ear of acompanion, who turns to listen, holding in one hand a knife, and inthe other the loaf he has cut in two ; another, turning with a knife inhis hand, upsets a glass upon the table ; another rests his hands uponthe table, and looks ; another, gasps in amazement ; another leansforward to look at the speaker, shading his eyes with his hand ;another, drawing back behind the one who leans forward, looks intothe space between the wall and the stooping disciple...Text Appearing After Image:.STUDY FOK THE HEAD OF JUDAS. (Windsor Library.) STUDIES FOR THE LAST SUPPER 189 Comparing this project with tlie painting, we see that, as at firstconceived, the Last Supper contained a number of reahstic motives,perhaps rather over-famiUar for so solemn a theme. As he pro-gressed, the artist gradually abandoned them. Thus, he suppressedthe gesture by which one of the apostles put down the glass fromwhich he had begun to drink, and the gesture of the apostle holdinga loaf he had cut in two. Of the two knives spoken of in the note,.