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To: Alex Murphy

There is a much earlier depiction of the Last Supper in Ravenna in the basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (possibly 6th century A.D.). It has everyone on the same side, but with Jesus at one end (extreme left from the viewer’s perspective). Supposedly that was the custom so that the servers could bring the food and set it before people easily.


46 posted on 08/19/2012 2:11:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus; SunkenCiv

Last Supper in Ravenna in the basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo 6th-century mosaic


50 posted on 08/21/2012 5:08:03 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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