Illustration:
ill. 5.75 b (set: 5.75)
Author:
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) 李奥纳多·达·文西
Date:
1495 - 1498
Genre:
painting
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: tempera and oil on gesso, pitch and mastic, mural,422 x 904 cm
Source:
Kindlers Malerei Lexikon. Cologne: Lingen Verlag, 1979, Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
European painting tradition, renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, religious

Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Banquet (Liaonaduo da Wenxi: Zui hou de wancan 李奥纳多·达·文西: 最后的晚餐)

Art works like Liu Liguo’s Laughing Buddhas Mao (2005, ill. 5.59a and ill. 5.59 b) and Zhang Hongtu’s comic interpretation of the “red sun” as the “wrong sun” in his depiction of capitalist Quaker Oats Mao (1987, ill. 5.25) are playful in their negotiations with Mao’s godlike qualities. This can be said, too, for Zhang Hongtu’s 1989 work entitled The Last Banquet (ill. 5.75 a) which is a very close parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452–1519) The Last Banquet (1495–98) as seen here.