Okay, so I was watching my Gilmore Girls DVD (season four, thanks again, Ilyka!), and it was a silly episode that I really like, partly because they have the Festival of Living Art, which is a pretty strange festival where the locals get made up to look like paintings and statues and then, well, stand still for half a minute looking like a painting or a statue. And one of the paintings is DaVinci’s The Last Supper, which brings on lots of silliness between the characters who play Judas and Jesus.
So I’m watching the episode, and Judas and Jesus are fighting, and one of the characters says to them, “Cut it out or I’m going to throw one of these papier-mache rolls at you.” And I did a double-take, and said out loud, “There were rolls at the last supper? There were rolls at the last supper? There were rolls at the last supper?”
Which brings me to this post. When the episode was over, I went online and found this copy of the painting, and damned if there aren’t rolls in The Last Supper.
Hello, Jewish! Jew-ish! Last Supper was a Passover Seder! Hello! Calling Leo DaVinci! Where’s the matzo?
I thought he was supposed to be smart.
Perhaps those aren’t rolls, but are instead knedles, awaiting the arrival of the soup (food prepartion, serving, and cleanliness weren’t quite up to our present day standards).
Alternatively, knedles scattered about the table might be some sort of code…
You have single handedly broken the DaVinci Code….Whooo! LOL
Thats a pretty meager Potluck dinner they are eating. If it were a group of women … hmmmm… there would have been more than ‘chips and beer’.
Those aren’t rolls – they’re potatoes, which weren’t officially discovered until 30 years after da Vinci painted the Last Supper. Leonardo is hiding a clue that the Last Supper took place in America (most probably at Sarge’s Deli in Murray Hill). This explains the well-known fact that the Jews control America: It’s because we got there first.
All of you, folks, let your imagination lead you astray. Have you ever heard of matzo balls? It is an ancient habit of the Hebrews to express their dissatisfaction with the cook of the Pesah meal by throwing matzo balls around.
Come on, shame on you!
All you got it wrong.
It’s a clever linguistic disguise.
By putting rolls at the Last Supper, Leonardo is making a statement about the roles of the people present. No one wanted to be in the role of paying the bill and leaving the tip.
This is the real, true, secret reason for two thousand years of tension between the Jews and the Church: dinner for 14 plus automatic 18% gratuity for parties larger than 6 with 2,000 years of accumulated interest at an average of 5% compounded daily for each day that the Jaysus party has refused to pay…
Tom Frank already suggested that, Snoopy, but you’re both wrong. And you really shouldn’t go round saying that Jesus’ momma made knedlach like potatoes. The last person to say that caused 2,000 years of antisemitism. You want to start it all off again, just when we finally got antisemitism completely stopped?
Who said the Ma Nishtana at the Last Supper?
And who found the afikomen?
Found at least one prior comment on the rolls:
Even more than Ma Nishtana, who played each of the four sons?
Rolls or no rolls, this is all just speculation. There’s really only one thing that present-day people know for sure about the Last Supper.
At one point, Jesus said, “Okay, everybody, gather ’round for the picture!”
Russ,
While Randy Weiss is correct about the painting, and about Michelangelo’s David, you are aware, I hope, that he’s one of those execrable “Jews” for Jesus?
I’m thinking his outrage about the rolls gets countered by the fact that he’s a Christian disguising himself as a Jew. Sorta like the reverse of what he’s complaining the Church did to Jesus.
As beautiful a work of art as The Last Supper is/was – DaVinci got the historical details entirely wrong. In those days people did not sit at tables but reclined on pillows. Jesus and his disciples did not look that in the picture (that was the way 15th century Florentine models looked).
Dan Brown’s next novel will be about a secret society of Jews that has kept the rest of us from knowing that rolls are actually kosher for Passover.