the last supper

[EvanL]

http://www.eskimo.com/~rwb/images/europe/11-milan-last-supper.jpg
Look at that hand with the knife on the left. Whose is it?

[Rantanplan]

why ya askin?

[EvanL]

because i just read the davinci code and they talked about this. And it brings up an interesting point.
Why is there an extra hand in there? And why is it holding a knife with the blade upwards?

[molly747]

I thought I read that DaVinci had painted it is as "code" to symbolize the severing of the "true grail" meaning. Oh, and that's a chick next to Jesus.

[Rantanplan]

rubbish

[Eat a bullet]

Cause downwards would just be silly...i mean, come on. :cantbeli:

[EvanL]

Cause downwards would just be silly...i mean, come on. :cantbeli:
well downwards would indicate they were using it for the food.

[James]

I thought I read that DaVinci had painted it is as "code" to symbolize the severing of the "true grail" meaning. Oh, and that's a chick next to Jesus.

Yep. His wife Mary M.

[Eat a bullet]

Cause downwards would just be silly...i mean, come on. :cantbeli:
well downwards would indicate they were using it for the food.
:|

[NcDeuce]

The man could just be twirling his knife?

[Sir Zach of R.]

I thought I read that DaVinci had painted it is as "code" to symbolize the severing of the "true grail" meaning. Oh, and that's a chick next to Jesus.

Yep. His wife Mary M.

rofl

[Scottie]

interesting point you have there..

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

interesting point you have there..

Not really, next time you hold a knife at dinner that's how you hold it. It's just a crappy old painting.

[Scagel]

He's Delta.
Davinci had to black teh rest of him out for OPSEC.

[achilles]

I thought I read that DaVinci had painted it is as "code" to symbolize the severing of the "true grail" meaning. Oh, and that's a chick next to Jesus.

Yep. His wife Mary M.

Exactly. This is also verified by the manuscripts of the Dead Sea p-)-(or the Dead Sea Scrolls)

[Scottie]

interesting point you have there..

Not really, next time you hold a knife at dinner that's how you hold it. It's just a crappy old painting.

well, whos hand is it Mister Smarty pants

p-)

[JNSA]

I thought I read that DaVinci had painted it is as "code" to symbolize the severing of the "true grail" meaning. Oh, and that's a chick next to Jesus.

Yep. His wife Mary M.

Taken from: http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm


Much of Brown’s argument centers around da Vinci’s Last Supper, a painting the author considers a coded message that reveals the truth about Jesus and the Grail. Brown points to the lack of a central chalice on the table as proof that the Grail isn’t a material vessel. But da Vinci’s painting specifically dramatizes the moment when Jesus warns, “One of you will betray me” (John 13:21). There is no Institution Narrative in St. John’s Gospel. The Eucharist is not shown there. And the person sitting next to Jesus is not Mary Magdalene (as Brown claims) but St. John, portrayed as the usual effeminate da Vinci youth, comparable to his St. John the Baptist. Jesus is in the exact center of the painting, with two pyramidal groups of three apostles on each side. Although da Vinci was a spiritually troubled homo******, Brown’s contention that he coded his paintings with anti-Christian messages simply can’t be sustained.

Go and take a look at Rafael's "David", and you will have an example of how efeminate renascense's artistic depictions of men can be...
;)

[Khabbi]

Its a painting , not a actual photo ,

[gaz]

I was hoping this thread was about the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113613/) perhaps proving that Evan wasn't a tool afterall, but alas, no.

[CG51]

looks sideways to me, not up...

http://thebiblerevival.com/clipart/MARK%2014%20-%2018%20The%20Last%20Supper.jpg

[disabled1]

dont believe any fictional books there buck-o

[Praetorian 05]

Fact or fiction; how are to know one from the other in this case? History is man's recollection and documentation. Regardless; personal opinion always rears it's ugly head. Men by nature are biased. So the only thing we can do is research and come to our own conclusion.

[sierraone]

I have read The Da Vinci Code. It is just a novel and people want to read too much into it. I don't know what the author's stand is in all this but I suspect he is identifying with the main character. He is obviously a fan of secret societies, codes etc. In the end of the day no-one knows true history from fact, fiction, superstition and reality.

Fact is that we have been Christians for the past 2000 years and we have lived, fought, worshipped, burnt at stakes, eaten by lions, went to war etc for it. Who am I to question all this?