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Supersizing the "Last Supper"
gandhi_2 writes "A pair of sibling scholars compared 52 artists' renditions of 'The Last Supper', and found that the size of the meal painted had grown through the years. Over the last millennium they found that entrees had increased by 70%, bread by 23%, and plate size by 65.6%. Their findings were published in the International Journal of Obesity. From the article: 'The apostles depicted during the Middle Ages appear to be the ascetics they are said to have been. But by 1498, when Leonardo da Vinci completed his masterpiece, the party was more lavishly fed. Almost a century later, the Mannerist painter Jacobo Tintoretto piled the food on the apostles' plates still higher.'"
In his portrait the fries are all supersized, when many historians note that apostles were much more likely to order from the dollar menu.
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But they drank Diet Coke!!!!
That article was worthless. It's about a series of paintings, and yet the only picture is of some athlete in the side column.
If this is the current standard of quality in newspapers, no wonder they're a dying breed.
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Everyone knows that the apostles ordered Filet o' Fish! C'mon!
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Did they ever think that over time people became more advances and better able to feed themselves. We no longer live on the verge of starvation!
This story proves tow things: The first is obviously that size matters when it comes to food. And the second which is slightly more deep: Slashdot is indeed about stuff that matters... sometimes. Food!
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Historians were also both pleased and horrified by the recent unearthing of a rendition of the Last Supper by Michaelangelo. While the portion sizes are closer to what is believed to be accurate, the painting also features such embellishments as a kangaroo, twenty eight disciples, and three Christs.
However the card attached to the painting is actually labeled "The Penultimate Supper", and historians must admit there are no records of how many people attended that gathering.
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Leonardo's Last Supper is not exactly what most of us would describe as a pig-out. We see about one bread roll for each disciple and two or three dishes of what looks like some undetermined Indian takeaway, washed down with a few glasses of red wine. Big deal.
Not on friday.
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...I wanted to give the impression of a real last supper. You know, not just any old last supper. Not like a last meal or a final snack. But you know, I wanted to give the impression of a real mother of a blow-out, you know?
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Using the size of the diners' heads as a basis for comparison, the Wansinks used computers to compare the sizes of the plates in front of the apostles, the food servings on those plates and the bread on the table.
Maybe people's heads have just been getting smaller? It would sure explain a lot.
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This looks to me like an attempt to win an ignoble prize. Just like this one, which was an actual winner: http://improbable.com/ig/2002/scrotal-asymmetry.pdf "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Scupture"
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It also depicts them as a bunch of white guys.
No, I’m not suggesting that Jesus was black. But he probably wasn’t white.
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I thought it was only on friday?
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The painting was made in the dining room of a monastery in the first place. Its not surprise that extra food would be added...
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Artistic License. The artists at the time were portraying this painting in their own eye, during times that when food was increasing in supply. Same deal with Rockwell and his work.
This is a riot that a obesity study group would try to connect the lines between historic and religious art with obesity. That is rather like trying to associate American League Football with blood sports.
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Beginning early in the 2d Millennium, the Catholic Church started burning many true ascetics (e.g., the Cathars) as heretics. (They of course then expanded the powers of the Inquisition to include, well, anyone their twisted logic could rationalize to oppress.)
No doubt this led to a change in the way people perceived heroes from religious history. Da Vinci may never have even considered the idea that an apostle was an ascetic. The Inquisition was in full force, and in charge of most of the governments and virtually all of the churches of Europe, when he painted that picture.
I'll tell you what you want, mate...you want a bloody photographer, not a creative artist with some imagination!!
Especially on Friday (though not on Good Friday).
On Easter they go out for Paella.
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But the Last Supper was on Thursday.
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In the next years you will see a freaking burger on the last supper
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I wish I could sit around all day and do bullshit studies like this. Thank you sir, for providing absolutely not benefit to society.
The researchers are, I think onto something here, but not what everyone seems to think. I saw this story carried on another site originally, and so I am willing to give it more credit than I would a typical "Idle" story... having read TFA, I suggest this merits our attention. The implication of the article is that it has to do with obesity, and although there may exist a very distant relationship, I don't think the obesity connection is what we should consider.
No, I think it may be a function of the amount of food on, and the typical size of the average person's dinner plate at or around the time the painting was made. As people got progressively better at farming, and as governments became more proficient at ensuring political and/or economic stability for the masses, the amount of food available probably went WAY up. The size of the portions in the paintings doubtless reflects a bias on the part of the painter to presume that portion size historically is similar to what he experienced during his own lifetime. I think that is a better conclusion to draw than, "OMG, we've been getting progressively fatter for over a thousand years!"
A probably OT point on etymology - but why is it that in the USA that the main course is called the "entrée"? The first time I had dinner in the USA it had me momentarily confused because you'd expect the "entrée" to be the starter, not the main course (in French, the "entrée" is the starter).
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Why is this here? Is it that anything with a little math is considered worthy of /.? So if I made an article which compares breast implant trends from the 60's to now as long as I used math it would make it here?
Three Christs, and 27 apostrophes swimming nude together in a giant bowl of hummus.
God, I pray that none of our tax dollars funded this.
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Seriously, folks, I'm glad someone is doing this important research.
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
In Cusco, Peru, the cathedral has a picture of JC and his mates eating guinea pig for their last supper. Da Vinci obviously got it wrong.
Nah, the last supper was on Thursday....
It just means they hadn't eaten yet.
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Christians don't even read their own Book! The Apostles were fishermen!
And his feet were the size of halibut. Or so the guy at Got Medieval says.
Not all of them, one of them was a Taxman, Matthew IIRC
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