The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

ERRORS IN THE DA VINCI CODE
duces these alleged treasure troves of documents that
never get revisited in the book.
Error: In the Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
allegedly painted Mary Magdalene as the one next
to Jesus.
Rebuttal: One of Dan Brown’s proofs is that John
looks so feminine, but John is often portrayed in such a
way in art because he was young. Go to any cathedral
and look at the stained glass images of John. (Just as you
can identify Peter because he is holding keys and you can
tell Andrew because he is holding a Cross like an X (the
kind on which he was crucified), so you can tell John by
his feminine looks, and often he is holding a chalice,
sometimes with a dragon popping out.) John often
looks feminine. This was not unique to Leonardo. But
suppose it were the case that Leonardo intentionally
painted Mary Magdalene next to Jesus instead of John,
because Jesus and Mary were allegedly married, and
Leonardo was in on the secret, then I have two
observations:
• Where is the “beloved disciple” John? He is
not in the picture. Where is he? Under the table?
Dan Brown’s contention (based on the 1982
bestseller with a heterodox message, Holy Grail,
Holy Blood) is absurd.
• And even if it were true that Leonardo
intended to encode these anti-Church messages
about the real Jesus, so what? Granted he was a
genius, but what did he know while painting some
1,500 years after Jesus Christ?
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