December 20, 2004
The missing apostle
This may sound really strange but I get an unexplainable pleasure out of finding last supper scenes with the wrong number of apostles. Which means I can't go pass a painting or scuplture depicting that scene without counting the number of people at the table.
Here are two of my findings:
Museu de Évora, Portugal
And what exactly is that apostle doing on Christ's lap????!?!?
Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
These two are probably paintings that have been cut up leaving the missing apostle out, but I don't care :-)
Posted by claudia
Comments
He his blowing...
Posted by C at December 20, 2004 11:23 AM
Caption for the first picture:
"Doctors declare abdomen-head grafting procedure a success"
Anyway, just speculation but maybe the painters are superstitious and would rather paint twelve rather than thirteen to avoid bad luck?
Posted by alkam at December 20, 2004 07:21 PM