An investigation on vision paradigms based on two versions of the Last Supper

Abstract

Following the path of two visual texts that express the scene of the Last Supper, this paper investigates the parallelism between the production of visual works that calls for a greater tactility and the adoption of a paradigm different from the optic, without separation and hierarchy of the senses. The haptic paradigm unifies knowledge and practices that integrate the senses and propose a higher body engagement from the enunciatee. In this context, the notion of synesthesia becomes the conceptual center able to explain the integration of the senses. From this notion, we investigate the effects of meaning arising from greater tactility visually stimulated by the work of the David Lachapelle, Last Supper, analyzed at the end of the article.