Every Last Supper painting you’ve ever seen is technically wrong. Da Vinci and everyone else put Jesus at a long wooden table. But Poussin actually did the historical research. In the 1st century, Romans ate on a triclinium: low, padded couches where you reclined on your elbows. Poussin didn't paint the scene how Christians had pictured it for a millennium; he painted it how it actually happened. Look closely at the far left: that’s Judas, in front of a man already slipping out into the dark. Th
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Every Last Supper painting you’ve ever seen is technically wrong. Da Vinci and everyone else put Jesus at a long wooden table. But Poussin actually did the historical research. In the 1st century, Romans ate on a triclinium: low, padded couches where you reclined on your elbows. Poussin didn't paint the scene how Christians had pictured it for a millennium; he painted it how it actually happened. Look closely at the far left: that’s Judas, in front of a man already slipping out into the dark. Th
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