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My Biggest Issue with the Da Vinci Painting Argument

posted 8 years ago by purplish-1
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In their efforts to "prove" that Mary Magdalene is in the Lord's Supper painting, people who support this theory conveniently forget that there were 12 disciples. Not eleven. SO, if that was Mary Magdalene, where was John? He just wasn't at the supper at all? He was just chilling somewhere else, then came back in time to join Mary at the crucifixion? You can't say he didn't exist because if you believe this stuff, he helped Mary the Mother and Mary Magdalene escape to France.

Maybe if people had an explanation of where he was at the time of the Lord's Supper, I'd be more convinced that Mary Magdalene was sitting in his place at the table instead. Otherwise I think there's a giant and obvious hole in the argument. Very weak all around and I can't get past the obvious detail that folks choose to ignore. There were TWELVE disciples, not ELEVEN. John even wrote a whole book himself so you can't just act like he didn't exist.

[–] sevenlilxenos 8 years ago

Maybe John took the picture that the painting was based on.

[–] BenignPillows 8 years ago

Maybe John took the picture that the painting was based on.

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"The best fairytale is one where you believe the people" -Irvin Kershner

[–] pmac7902 8 years ago

Boom! That explains it for me! :)

~~~"Who do you think you're dealing with? Guess again."~~~

[–] tomatosauce6808 7 years ago

Damne was gonna make the same joke.

[–] berzelmayr 8 years ago

If anything then Leonardo would have rather wanted to emphasize the relationship between Jesus and John, the so called "beloved disciple", since Leonardo himself already had a reputation among contemporaries that he was attracted to beardless youths with long hair. That is also the traditional image of John in European art, long before Leonardo painted his version of "The Last Supper". People, who aren't familiar with these paintings and sculptures, would quickly mistake John with a woman.

[–] BenignPillows 8 years ago

Leonardo himself already had a reputation among contemporaries that he was attracted to beardless youths with long hair.

Yep, for example "Salai", who indeed served as a model for John the Baptist in Leonardo's paintings several times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala%C3%AC

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"The best fairytale is one where you believe the people" -Irvin Kershner

[–] purplish-1 8 years ago

If anything then Leonardo would have rather wanted to emphasize the relationship between Jesus and John, the so called "beloved disciple", since Leonardo himself already had a reputation among contemporaries that he was attracted to beardless youths with long hair. That is also the traditional image of John in European art, long before Leonardo painted his version of "The Last Supper". People, who aren't familiar with these paintings and sculptures, would quickly mistake John with a woman.

🙌 THANK YOU for this brilliant post. Case closed!

[–] TreeHuggerKyle 8 years ago

Da Vinci would have to hide the fact that a woman was in the picture. If he painted 14 people, it would be obvious that it was more than just Jesus and the disciples. To sneak a woman into the picture, it would have to be in place of one of the disciples.

[–] Pesebrero 8 years ago

Who said there were 12 disciples?

[–] Culfy 8 years ago

The four gospel writers and St Paul

1 mark deducted for not being Curse of Fenric. Insert 'The' into previous if you are Ant-Mac

[–] spookyrat1 7 years ago

... where was John?

He went out for the pizzas.🐭

[–] chilone 7 years ago

Not to mention, Da Vinci was born over 1400 years after the last supper. People act as if his PAINTING that he MADE UP, somehow captured the real event.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

[–] planetmutty 7 years ago

I haven't seen the film for ages but in the book, Dan Brown certainly gave the impression that the painting was an accurate historical record rather than a piece of art.

[–] chilone 7 years ago

1400 years later accuracy would be dubious, at best. 😃

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!