[butlerweave]

Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it ?

[Red Badger]

That’s the common depiction of the Renaissance.

In reality, they would have been reclining around a long table/platform about a foot tall, and no chairs...................

[MayflowerMadam]

“Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it ?”

Because one of them said, “Everyone who wants in the picture, get on this side of the table”...?

[Red Badger]

Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480, depicting Judas separately

[Red Badger]

Tintoretto, Last Supper, 1592–94, showing the Communion of the Apostles

[Red Badger]

Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511 - Florence 1574)

[Red Badger]

Jacopo Bassano, The Last Supper, 1542

[Red Badger]

Jacopo Bassano, The Last Supper, 1542

[Red Badger]

Dirk Bouts, The Last Supper, 1465

[Cronos]

It's artistic depiction from the 15th century

[COBOL2Java]

Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it ?

So that Mel Brooks could have a funny scene in "History of the World, Part One"

[Mr. K]

It was a buffet line

[HonorInPa]

In Roman times it was common for meals to be taken around a triclinium, or three-sided table, so that the servers could bring food and drink into the middle.

[al_c]

Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it ?

You know ... for the perfect group selfie picture painting.

[x]

“Why are they all sitting on the same side of the table like a movie would have it?”

They were in their favorite diner and the waitresses and cooks didn’t want to be in the picture.

[hinckley buzzard]

There are a number of Last Suppers by Renaissance masters, many of them in Florence. The table arrangement is an artistic convention used by all. Most of them are found in refectories btw, as is da Vinci’s.