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Friday, August 28, 2009 WHOSE HAND IS HOLDING THE DAGGER BEHIND JUDAS’ BACK?
The HALTA Definizione website features a super-high-resolution interactive image of Leonardo da Vinci’s THE LAST SUPPER, which permits the viewer to zoom in super close to view this “pointed” oddity in THE LAST SUPPER, which, to date, no one has explained, including Dan Brown. Is it Peter’s hand holding the dagger? If it is, why is he wielding it so cavalierly … with his hand … on his hip? At a Passover meal? Was Peter double-jointed? Or is it a disembodied hand, belonging to no one?
And where is Jesus’ chalice? And where is the disciple John? And why is a Passover meal being eaten at midday instead of at sundown?
Has this painting been repainted … or vandalized? If it has — and the use of dry plaster for a fresco suggests that it has — the woman could be anybody. It could be a Renaissance equivalent of a bathroom wall filled with pranks and graffiti.
And who put the door through the bottom portion of this so-called “masterpiece”?
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