The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is:

A. at the exact center of the picture.
B. just behind the head of the figure of Jesus.
C. on the horizon line.
D. all of these: at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, and on the horizon line.
E. None of these answers are correct.


D
Parallel lines receding in the distance converge at a point called the vanishing point. In The Last Supper, these lines converge at a vanishing point behind Jesus' head, at the exact center of the picture, along the horizon line.

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