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The Innocents Abroad
Part 2 of 6

CHAPTER XIX
18/29

Take a morsel of it: "Bartholomew (that is the first figure on the left hand side at the spectator,) uncertain and doubtful about what he thinks to have heard, and upon which he wants to be assured by himself at Christ and by no others." Good, isn't it?
And then Peter is described as "argumenting in a threatening and angrily condition at Judas Iscariot." This paragraph recalls the picture.

"The Last Supper" is painted on the dilapidated wall of what was a little chapel attached to the main church in ancient times, I suppose.

It is battered and scarred in every direction, and stained and discolored by time, and Napoleon's horses kicked the legs off most the disciples when they (the horses, not the disciples,) were stabled there more than half a century ago.
I recognized the old picture in a moment--the Saviour with bowed head seated at the centre of a long, rough table with scattering fruits and dishes upon it, and six disciples on either side in their long robes, talking to each other--the picture from which all engravings and all copies have been made for three centuries.

Perhaps no living man has ever known an attempt to paint the Lord's Supper differently.

The world seems to have become settled in the belief, long ago, that it is not possible for human genius to outdo this creation of da Vinci's.


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