does the picture of the last supper [ the one with mary magdeline in it ] cause offence to catholics or not ?
2007-09-17 01:24:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no Mary in the picture
2007-09-17 01:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Which one has Mary Magdeline? There have been many drawings of the Last Supper (my personal favorite was drawn by Salvador Dali).
Are you refering to the one by Leonardo DaVinci? If you are, I would seriously reccomend taking a course on Renissance Art, looking at other drawings of "the fair apostle" by other artists, look at the stylings of DaVinci in his other pieces, read up on his preference for young effeminate boys, and otherwise asctually look at the artistry of the painting.
But that is neither here nor there. You believe what you want to believe, even though it has no basis in scholarship or the reality of the art world.
2007-09-17 01:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mary isn't there despite what the Da Vinci Code may say.
The assembled people at the Last Supper are the disciples of Christ, with Jesus taking the centre position.
2007-09-20 23:41:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings,
There was no women present for the Last Supper.Only Jesus and his disciples.you must have seen the picture of The Descent of the Holy spirit,Where Mother Mary was present with the apostles.
If you have seen a picture as for the Last supper with Mother Mary ignore it.
Peace Be With you.
2007-09-17 01:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Nick Carter 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
::sighs:: artists, especially DaVinci, was known to sketch and paint and erase and paint and erase and paint again.
Many old masters did so because either they could not afford new canvas, or in the Last Supper's case, to change the look of the person or he might have decided to paint something else before he painted the fresco of the Last Supper on that wall.
The feet are missing in the original because they made a doorway through that wall afterwards, does that have deep meaning for you too?
2007-09-17 01:34:38 · answer #5 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because it's not intended to represent Mary M but John.
And I find myself in complete agreement with Pastor Art (a true first) on this one; a reality check is in order. It is an artist's rendering of an event that occurred several centuries before he was born. He was hardly an eyewitness.
2007-09-17 05:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by Clare † 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Leonardo da Vinci painted young men to look like young women. In the true picture of the last supper the feminine looking man is John. Da Vinci left pencil drawings of the painting where each person was named in the drawing before the painting of the picture. Dan Brown has warped the minds of millions with his so-called fiction book of evil.
2007-09-17 01:34:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
yes, some of my Catholic friends are pissed. It is the few times I have seen them spontaneously raise their voice. Like you I was just asking the question. So I'm sure the church is upset that they paid someone to draw a picture and hundreds of years go by and they didn't see that it had Mary Magdeline in it. If they new, they would have burned it.
2007-09-17 01:33:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
What one with Mary Magdeline in it?
2007-09-17 01:30:03 · answer #9 · answered by osborne_pkg 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What some people don't seem to realize is that you are NOT talking about a photograph of the event.
You are talking about and looking at a painting, painted by a guy who was not there. He was not born til 1400 years AFTER the event took place.
Who cares what is in the painting?
The Bible does not tell us that MM was present.
Pastor Art
2007-09-17 01:33:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It does not offend me at all as it is just the interpretation of the artist who was not present at the last supper after all.
2007-09-17 01:32:05 · answer #11 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋