In that painting 'the last supper' Who's that woman, sitting near jesus?

Answer 1

Boy, you don't think you're the ONLY person to have read The Da Vinci Code, do you?

Answer 2

As salaamu 'aliakym.
That "woman" next to Jesus is supposed to be the Apostle John (of the brothers James and John, two of the earliest apostles). John was supposedly the youngest apostle. No one knows how young as the gospels and their writiers were not concerned with historical accuracy. Also much of what they wrote has been edited, altered and re-edited and re-altered time and time again by the various persons and groups in power in the various Christian sects at different times. This was also true during Leonardo da Vinci's time.
Master Leonardo da Vinci was a homosexual ( an historical fact) and he may have been painting a young man with whom he was in a relationship or with whom he would have liked to have been in a relationship with.
Although "The Da Vinci Code" was an enjoyable read, it should not be taken as "fact". Virtually no reliable bibical historian would give it any credence. It is a mystery ficiton novel written in the style of the old serials that were once popular movie and radio fare of their day. They were called "cliff hangers" because you were always left with the hero/heroine facing a new problem as soon as the first one had been solved or avoided.
Reading and investigating what is labled as "historic fact" is much more pleasing and enjoyable, much like reading science fact is more enjoyable than science fiction.
Keep reading.
Ma'a salaam.

Answer 3

Many would say it's not a woman, DaVinci Code notwithstanding. It's supposed to be the apostle John, as far as I know. And, remember, Leonardo wasn't there at the time; he can paint whatever he wants and it doesn't make it an accurate historic recreation of the event.

Answer 4

It's no woman I tell you it's a man without a beard, have you ever seen a man without one?
It's St. John the Apostle.
Even the gospel tells that St John leaned onto the sacred Heart of Jesus.

Answer 5

No woman, DaVinci painted him to be a teenager. At that time, that's how they portrayed young men. Actually, at the time of Christ, Jewish men of that time didn't even have long hair and they didn't sit on chairs to eat either, they sat on the floor and had low tables, but of course, DaVinci wouldn't have known that, so he painted it as he saw it in his head.

Answer 6

The youthful Apostle John. In Italian Renaissnce art teen hansomeness would be considered effeminate in our time and the 18th cent European ideals of male beauty were foppish,to put it mildly.

Answer 7

Depending on which rule you follow which most believe that it is actually John the apostle while few believe that it is the woman named Mary Magdalene. It is John not a woman i believe.

Answer 8

Um, my grandmother had a copy of that painting and she told me it was Mary. Now which Mary she never said. But it was painted by Da Vinci, so one can only conclude that it's Mary Magdalene if you believe the crap in the Da Vinci code.

Answer 9

John (The one whom Jesus loved)

Answer 10

Paris Hilton.