The Last Supper

A fresco painted by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus and his disciples at the moment Jesus announces that one of them has betrayed him. ( See under “The Bible.” )

The Last Supper

The traditional Passover (see also Passover ) meal that Jesus ate with the Apostles the night before his death. At this supper, according to the Gospels , Jesus blessed bread and broke it, telling the disciples , “Take, eat; this is my body.” He then passed a cup of wine to them, saying, “This is my blood.” Jesus' words refer to the Crucifixion he was about to suffer in order to atone for humankind's sins. He told the Apostles, “Do this in remembrance of me.”

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Restoration of the deteriorating fresco has caused great controversy. Some art critics claim that the colors are now “too bright” and that Leonardo's original work has been mutilated. The restoration has been open to the public on a limited basis since 1999.

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For Christians, the Maundy Thursday service marks the Last Supper - and the King's message speaks of the humility of Jesus who "knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon him".

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Malky performed with his band The Vindscreen Vipers in the same Scottish folk clubs as Connolly, and together they created The Big Yin cartoon strip for Scotland's Sunday Mail newspaper - taking the name from a famous Connolly routine at the time which reimagined the Last Supper as taking place in Glasgow.

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Meanwhile, some viewers were upset by a scene involving drag queens which many interpreted as a reference to the Last Supper, but artistic director Thomas Jolly said was a reference to pagan gods.

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Folklorist Anne Marie Lagram - herself a "strong believer" - also previously told BBC News that theories behind "unlucky 13" include the number of people present at the Last Supper or the number of witches to make a coven.

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The most fascinating is the complex compositional analysis of the figures in Leonardo’s second most famous painting, “The Last Supper,” that vast fresco in a communal dining room of a Dominican convent in Milan.

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