In the Leonardo da Vinci painting of The Last Supper, can someone name the apostles from left to right? In what source did you find your answer?
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It's a painting.....Leonardo da Vinci painted it based on what he read in the Bible. No one knows what the disciples looked like, because no one has an actual photograph, so there is no way to list them in the painting. The only one that we would possibly know would be John, who was Jesus' favorite. He was sitting next to Jesus,leaning against Him. I think Peter and James was sitting around Him too, and Judas was sitting close enough so that Jesus would have passed the bread to him, indicating that he was the one who would betray Him. But no one could know, from a painting.
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from left - John, Paul, George, Ringo, Bruce, Wendy, Jesus, Michael, Warren, Izzy, and Moe... LOL.
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3rd from left: St Andrew man w/ knife: St Peter man that knocks over glass: Judas asleep: John based on Leonardo da Vinci, Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl If you are intersted in Leonardo, this is an informative and entertaining book. Still one of my favorite books on history. Check Wikipedia for a complete list of apostles. Also, keep in mind that Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan has only about 20% of the original left. First the paint Leonardo experiemented with fell of, later others painted "more correct" versions over it and then it suffered when the French used it for target practice during the war. Hope my little bit of knowledge helps.
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