[dogbyte12]

Dan Brown is right. That is a chick next to Jesus in the Last Supper. It doesn't mean Mary Magdalene was at the last supper. It does mean that 1500 hundred years later, Leonardo DaVinci painted it that way.

Notice that Jesus on the Right, and the person alleged to be John on the Left are not posed naturally, but in the shape of the letter M. It's Mary Magdalene. Again, this is Da Vinci posing them in the letter M, and putting Mary Magdalene there 1500 years after Christ. It in no way means that Mary was there, or was a disciple, just that Da Vinci was part of a group who believed it to be the case.

[philosofy123]

I purchased the DaVinci Code last week, and I am having a hell of time reading this thing. It was drummed up to be one of the best books in the past five years by a book reviewer. I cannot follow the story. It is very boring.

[Bohemund]

The person on Jesus's right is John, who was frequently portrayed as an attractive young man.

There is no evidence that DaVinci was part of any group that believed anything unorthodox about Mary Magdalene and Jesus.

[bert]

For the record, there is also a symbol of John the Babtist. The person on the right has an index finger pointed up. This is said to be the symbol of John the Babtist and appears in many art works.

[1 spark]

Dan Brown is right. That is a chick next to Jesus in the Last Supper. It doesn't mean Mary Magdalene was at the last supper. It does mean that 1500 hundred years later, Leonardo DaVinci painted it that way.

Agreed.

It in no way means that Mary was there, or was a disciple, just that Da Vinci was part of a group who believed it to be the case.

Hmmm...kinda reminds me of some of the guys in 325AD.

[Romulus]

That is a chick next to Jesus in the Last Supper.

I doubt it.

apart from the fact that it was customary for artists in the Italian Renaissance to portray young men with angelic beauty -- especially St. John, in thousands of examples -- there's the plain fact that the Dominican fathers whose convent refectory adjoining the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie was the site of the da Vinci fresco were the Church's fiercest doctrinal watchdogs, charged with administration of the Roman Inquisition among other things. They'd have been the last to tolerate a gnostic myth in their dining room.

Idiotic theories like the da Vinci Code flourish only because modern man's gross ignorance of his cultural past, and his childish readiness to believe extravagant myths -- the more fanciful, the better.