Creating the fresco "The Secret Supper" Leonardo da Vinci was very long looking for the perfect models. Jesus was to incarnate the Good, and Judas, who decided to betray him at this table, was evil.
Leonardo repeatedly interrupted his work, going to search for the nurses.
One day, listening to the church choir, he saw in one of the young singers the perfect image of Christ and, inviting him to his workshop, made several sketches and etudes from it.
Three years passed. The "Secret Supper" was almost completed, but Leonardo never found a suitable mentor for Judas. The cardinal, who was responsible for the painting of the cathedral, hastened the artist, demanding that the fresco be completed as soon as possible.
And then, after a long search, the artist saw a man rolling in the garbage cane - young, but prematurely outdated, dirty, drunk and broken. There was no time for the etudes, and Leonardo ordered his assistants to bring him straight to the cathedral. With great difficulty he was dragged there and put on his feet. The man did not quite understand what was going on, and where he was, and Leonardo captured on the canvas the face of a man plunged in sins. When he finished his work, the poor man, who at that time had already recovered a little, approached the canvas and shouted:
I’ve seen this picture before!
and when? I was surprised by Leonardo.
Three years ago, before I lost everything. At that time when I
I sang in a choir, and my life was full of dreams, a certain artist wrote with
Christ to me...