What Nobody Tells You About the Last Supper Painting

Medium.com ^ | Nov 6, 2020 | Jesús Salazar

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PinGGG!..........................

[butlerweave]

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

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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”...?

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Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480, depicting Judas separately

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

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Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511 - Florence 1574)

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Jacopo Bassano, The Last Supper, 1542

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Remember that this is a painting, not a photograph. It is an interpretation by the artist. Most likely there was no table involved at all, since at that time people were reclining while dining.

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Jacopo Bassano, The Last Supper, 1542

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Dirk Bouts, The Last Supper, 1465

[telescope115]

Interesting article. I’m glad there are many classical renderings of The Last Supper to counter the heinous depiction served up by the IOC.

Every one of the participants in that banality was a Judas.

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[MayflowerMadam]

“Remember that this is a painting, not a photograph.”

Well duh. And here I thought the waitress snapped the shot with her Brownie.

[outofsalt]

"depicting Judas separately"

The cat?!

[Liz]

Many thanks for the several awesome artists’ interpretations of The Last Supper.

[jerod]

The French are just p*ssed because they don't have it. They have the 'Mona Lisa' Leonardo's lesser known painting.

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Apparently all the apostles and Jesus had ‘Morton’s Toe’.

The condition where the second toe is longer than the big toe is called Morton’s Toe. Morton’s Toe occurs when the second metatarsal bone is longer than the first metatarsal bone, resulting in the appearance of the second toe being longer than the big toe. This condition is a type of brachymetatarsia, caused by a premature closing of the first metatarsal’s growth plate.

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He’s the one without a halo. Cats were seen at that time as nefarious creatures and that is why the cat is pictured with Judas, like a witch and its familiar................