In this artwork, how is the Description discussed?
The Sacrament of the Last Supper depicts thirteen figures gathered around a table. Assuming this painting is in line with traditional symbolism the figures are Christ and his 12 Apostles. Christ is the central figure in the painting placed directly on the horizon line. Behind him on the intersection point of perspective rests the source of sunlight, making the Christ figure the focus of the painting. He points upward directing the viewer's attention to a dominating transparent torso with arms stretched outward spanning the width of the picture plane. The scene's setting is within a transparent dodecahedron or twelve-sided space as perceived in the pentagon-shaped windowpanes behind the table. In the background is a familiar landscape of Catalonia, which Dalí has included in his paintings numerous times, one example being his famous painting The Persistence of Memory.
dodecahedron The Persistence of Memory