Is there a female in the painting of “The Last Supper” including Jesus deciples?
“With the huge commercial success of Dan Brown’s novel “The Da Vinci Code”, some of the theories from this book became very popular. One of them says that Leonardo da Vinci placed Mary Magdalene and not St. John next to Jesus in his Last Supper painting. But a lot of other artist gave St. John, who was called “the beloved disciple” in the Bible, a certain look, which is now considered by many people as “feminine”, but not necessarily five centuries ago. Since ancient times he was believed to be very young, so young that he did not even have a real growth of beard. You can also see his long hair and the devouted gestures on many other paintings of the Renaissance. This hairstyle was very fashionable for young Italians during the time of Leonardo da Vinci. It should be noted that not only John, but also other apostles were sometimes depicted in the same way. We must try to understand the viewpoint of these artists, who grew up in a very androcentric environment – men and boys had a far m
Probably not, although to be honest what difference does it make. The “DaVinci” “Last Supper” is just a painting on the back of a church wall, not an authority. Further more due to precipitation of the wall the picture has slowly been flaking away, and over the many years has been constantly touched up by other painters, which has lead to alterations in many of the paintings details. This means that the DaVinci picture is not even a reliable subject as a DaVinci painting. Quite a large percentage of the detailed area is not even any longer DaVinci`s work.
It depends on which painting, and on who you ask. Many people believe that, in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the last supper, the person on Christ’s right is Mary Magdalene. And frankly, I would have to agree: the person looks *way* too effeminate to be a man—she even has cleavage! Whether or not most Christians believe she was there, that doesn’t mean that da Vinci didn’t believe it, and it *certainly* doesn’t mean that he didn’t paint it that way—and of course, he’s not currently in any position to make a conclusive statement on the subject. As for other depictions of the “Last Supper,” I’ve never seen another that features a female disciple.
