The Last Supper is one of Leonardo's most famous paintings. He completed only six works, including the famous picture The Last Supper. Leonardo was well known for his love of symmetry. In his Last Supper the layout is largely horizontal. The large table is seen in the foreground of the image with all of the figures behind it. The painting is largely symmetrical with the same number of figures on either side of Jesus. The above diagram shows how the perspective the Last Super was worked out with a series of marks at key points highlighting the architectural aspects of the composition and positioning of the figures.
What is symmetry? Symmetry is having one side that exactly mirrors the other. Symmetry is an exact balance on opposite sides of a dividing line of an item. Or, simply described as, the same on both sides. What is perspective? Perspective is what gives a three-dimensional feeling to a flat image such as a drawing or a painting. In art, it is a system of representing the way that objects appear to get smaller and closer together the farther away they are from the viewer.
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