* AdaptationDisplacement: Depictions of the Last Supper almost always use Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's painting as a reference before the sparsely detailed Biblical accounts.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: ''The Last Supper'' is one of the most famous pieces of art of all time for its iconic depiction of Christ and his disciples that exposes the emotional vulnerability of the Apostles through their facial expressions and hand movements.
* CommonKnowledge:
** ''The Last Supper'' is commonly referred to as a fresco, which it is not. Leonardo Da Vinci experimented with this {{painting|s}}, and instead of painting it on wet plaster as was the convention, he painted ''The Last Supper'' on a drywall with an experimental mix of tempera and paint, differentiating it from ordinary frescos. Leonardo wasn't in fact a great fan of the fresco technique, as it required {{painters}} to act quickly and irreversibly, while he preferred to take his time and work on details.
** A widely-circulated urban legend [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-last-supper/ tells the story]] that the same man posed as the model for Jesus and, some 10 or 25 years later after [[FaceHeelTurn living a life of dissolution]], for Judas. Of course, this is completely bogus; for one thing, Leonardo certainly didn't take ten whole years to finish the painting.
** The supposed [[ConspiracyPlacement secret symbols in the painting]] as popularized in ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' are regarded as purely fanciful by art historians.
* GeniusBonus: Spotting the fact that Jesus is surrounded by a circle that implies his perfection through Aristotelian conceptions of geometry takes a someone versed in historical geometry, a field exclusively filled with geniuses and ''nerds''.
* HouseholdNames: Website/TVTropes may be able to find more story in [[PinballTropes Pinball]] than in {{Art}}, but even we know what ''Art/TheLastSupper'' is. Besides ''Art/TheMonaLisa'' (also painted by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci) and the Art/SistineChapel's ceiling fresco (by Leonardo's rival Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti), it may just be the most famous painting of all time.
* {{Narm}}: The reactions of the Apostles are exaggerated to a point of being humorous to some. Specifically, Andrew's gesture of raising his hands is undermined by his rather blank expression.
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The painting's lack of halos, realistic depiction of human emotion, and spot-on perspective will often go unnoticed by modern viewers who have seen the five centuries of art built on the back of the work of Leonardo and masters like him.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: John, identified as such in the personal notes of Leonardo Da Vinci, is often mistaken for a woman due to his long hair and apparent swooning. This has even lead to wild speculation that Leonardo's John is supposed to be a depiction of Mary of Magdala, although this idea strangely leaves Jesus with an Apostle missing from his supper.
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