LEONARDO da Vinci: Study for the Last Supper

Leonardo's preparatory studies for the Last Supper reveal the master's obsessive attention to human emotion and psychological drama, capturing the precise moment when Christ announces his betrayal. These drawings, executed with his characteristic precision and sensitivity, demonstrate how Renaissance artists built monumental compositions through countless sketches exploring gesture, expression, and spatial relationships. Now housed in the Royal Library at Windsor, these studies stand as testament to Leonardo's revolutionary approach to narrative painting, where every figure's response to the announcement becomes an individual psychological portrait.