last suppers

Wherever you go in, almost any church, there is Da Vinci's painting, not the original, of the Last Supper. They are all lined up on one side of a very long table in a renaissance dining room for their photo op. Never mind that they would have reclined around a simple rug. Perhaps showing them lying down wouldn't have been dignified enough. And then we have the frame - note the detail. This version is hanging in the chapel here. Who gives these things to churches, and who says that they have to be there forever? I once had a church that had a paint-by-number last supper glued to the front of their communion table. There is one in the Anglican cathedral in Montreal. It was the only thing rescued when the previous church burnt down. And what about the one painted on black velvet? - okay, that one was in Mexico.