Today in class we finished up our last lecture by looking at the birth of Venus. In this work Zephir, the god of wind, is shown pushing Venus ashore. There are orange trees in the background with its flowers blowing around. Throughout we see gold highlights. Venus as the main entity in this work is shown completly nude, however this is not errotic or an imorral depiction.
In the high renascence in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was creating a lot from a wide variety of disciplines, while also studying. He creates Anatomical sketches with the help of texts by Galen, a Greek Physician. I believe this helps Leonardo with his depictions of Humans as studying artistic anatomy is part of the process of learning how to depict figures. He creates a lot of sketches and journals which are written backward due to his left-handedness.
The Last Supper is in bad condition due to his experimentation with fresco techniques that failed. This depiction of the last supper shows the moment after Christ reveals one of the apostles will betray him. This allows for him to add more complexity as each of the apostles are shown to react creating varying poses. There is a lot of symbolic references from the windows and panels each referencing to the trinity and four gospels respectively.