Reply #13: The Last Supper by Michelangelo

[DrDebug]

I forgot who wrote this story, but I once read it and I hope I can accurately recall it from memory.

Michelangelo was asked to paint the last supper and at first he was doing fine, but there were two faces for whom he needed a model: Jesus and Judas. The first one was Jesus and he kept on asking himself who would be a good model to use for the face of Jesus, because Michelangelo didn't want the traditional face but the face a good person. So he walked the streets of Rome but he couldn't find anybody.

One Sunday he saw a boy in the choir and he thought that his face would be perfect for it, so he asked the boy to be the model for the face of Jesus. After he painted Jesus he set out to make the rest of the painting, but he still didn't have a face for Judas. One year passed and the painting was still unfinished, but the Vatican didn't care that much. The second year the bishop started to complain that they needed the painting, but Michelangelo couldn't find a face which was perfect for Judas.

It was already three years since he was commissioned to make the painting and the bishop was getting irritated with Michelangelo waiting that long to finish the painting and he order Michelangelo to find a model for Judas.

So Michelangelo was back in the streets of Rome trying to find an evil face. Somebody who was disenchanted with life and there he found a man in the gutter who was still young, but he was drunk and his face was evil looking, so he transported the boy to the Vatican and started to paint Judas.

The drunk started to wake up and he said: "What am I doing here? Who are you people?" and he looked at the painting and said: "Hey, I've seen that painting a couple of years ago. Things where still great back then and somebody asked me to be the model for the face of Jesus."