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And you are ignoring that there are two separate references going on. I think the Bishop type hat on the person at the center of the table is a clue

 

I dunno, on this one if you compare them it definitely looks more like the painting Feast of the Gods. The way they are posing even mimicks that painting more than The Last Supper.

 

Yeah, there is also a more famous Italian painting by the same name. It was one of the more common subjects of the Renaissance, so a bunch of paintings were made with that title.

 

Jesus isn't even wearing a hat in The Last Supper. Nor does he have a halo in that painting.

 

Why is the center one in a bishops hat?
Just stop. Admit it was poor taste.

Even liberal non religious posters here have been honest and done that. Why is it so hard for you? Are you getting some kind of alt lib street cred points that we are unaware of?

As for me getting offended. I mean you seem to make that your goal here

I dont start threads slamming anyone. I dont start threads trying to light fires.

I just comment on existing topics.

 

Was Dionysius there throughout, or was it a changing scene? First the people at the table, and then he showed up?
I looked for the video but everything was full of reaction rather than just the scene.

 

Curious where you stand on the scene

Yet a christian image is used.
This is why it appears to be intentional.

 

It looks much more like the feast of the gods where they are all randomly looking around with different poses.

In the Last Supper most people are focused on Jesus.

 

Was Jesus wearing a Bishop hat in the Last Supper? Most people were seated in the Last Supper, not standing. There were 13 people in the last supper, which is a non-negotiable part of the story. There was no naked smurf guy in the Last Supper.

Christians: That's definitely supposed to be Last Supper ... they just got most of it wrong.

 

First the table...He arrives later under a platter.
As if he is the meal...

The official olympic site has removed it now, but there are videos on social media.

 

Non Christians. "A Christian figure in the middle of a table has no meaning. And the guy who created the program has still not denied it but we will believe the people scared of losing money"

 

Renaissance paintings often combined Christian imagery with scenes from Greek and Roman religions. If you look at the Feast of the Gods painting that I posted earlier from France, they had Apollo have a halo like Christians typically use for Jesus (but, which, notably, The Last Supper does not contain).

Do you really think that they were using an Italian painting instead of a French painting when all of the other paintings that they referenced were French? Because, then you would also need to argue that they chose to add the halo (which isn't in The Last Supper) and chose to add Dionysius (who was not in The Last Supper), whereas both of those elements exist in the French version of The Feast of the Gods.

The other paintings utilized were French paintings re-created pretty consistently (minus the lack of nudity) and the use of a few modern elements.

 

Even with the different number of people, the hat, etc ... Looking at the images Monk posted above. it's hardly a stretch to see it as the last supper. That'd be my first reaction.

An Olympics Scene Draws Scorn. Was It Really Referencing ‘The Last Supper’?

 

Maybe it has meaning, just not the meaning you want. Even if true, that she is supposed to represent Jesus, she is wearing a Christian hat and giving the "I love you" hand signal... so how is that "mocking" Jesus. What did they do that is "anti-christian", other the fact that some Christians don't think they should be allowed to exist? If it were a bunch of Alabama frat boys recreating this in the same exact way, they'd be praised as anti-woke college student heros ... put an LGBT person there, and it's "mocking Jesus".

 

The mocking is pathetic, sad but .... we are told this will happen. Knowing this, it is a little more difficult to get angry with those that created the exhibit and those that defend it and/or attack believers for not liking the depiction. I believe we are also told there will be those who attack our faith, beliefs, and values. Their words and actions say far more about them ... than they do about Christianity and those who are Christians.

If we really want to aggravate a non-believer (and should we really want to do that??) .... just tell them we will pray for their soul.

 

I thought it was The Last Supper as a non-art expert. It is obviously the most famous painting that is set up like that. But the alternative claim does seem to fit a bit better. It is a French painting (like all of the other artwork referenced in the Opening Ceremonies), it includes the Dionysius figure, who seems completely out of place in The Last Supper, and does have some of the visual elements in that painting.

 

From the pictures I've seen and the published descriptions I'm not a fan and in firm agreement the inclusion was in poor taste, vulgar, offensive and not appropriate for this event. But I'm not convinced it was deliberately planned. I have not seen any video so I'm only speculating when I say it could have been a coincidence discovered in staging the costumed depictors in their places. Did they move around much?

Not having seen the boat I don't know how it was set up but I am familiar with boats trafficking the Seine. We've taken a couple of dinner cruises in years past and I know the boats are narrow. The staging was necessarily constrained by the dimensions of the stage it was set on. That dictates the arrangement of the group on the stage.

In some ways the tableau had a passing resemblence to Da Vinci's painting, but as mentioned - it could have been an unhappy cooincidence the Bacchanalian group discovered while staging the tableau. The costuming, especially of the central figures, is more in keeping with the stated theme, celebrating Dionysus. Artists (and staging is an art) set their stages to enhance or communicate the intention of the scene. "Staging is a subtle yet powerful way to communicate the emotions of all the characters and of the scene itself to the audience. Staging can, and always will, stimulate the imagination and power of projection in each audience member."
Again -
"Staging can, and always will, stimulate the imagination and power of projection in each audience member."

I'm more inclined to think it was a passing but unfortunate coincidence that was possibly discovered before they set off on that cruise.

 

If that performance was so offensive to you, the things Trump says and does must outrage you to your very Christian core.

 

Oh, the pearl clutching!