Shadows of a Sacred Dinner

Undoubtedly, it is based on the famous Cenácolo or Sacred Dinner, which the incomparable Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci carried out in the church of Santa María delle Grazie and which, due to its beauty, its realism and its many mysteries, causes the admiration of the whole world. Unlike the rest of the characters in the Madrid Wax Museum, no one knows for sure what Christ and his disciples looked like, so in this scene, there is no room for similarity, which generally tend to be unavoidable when visiting this type of museums.

Coincidence or not, Christ, occupying the center of the table, has his back to a small window, so that in the backlight his shadow is barely projected or is not projected enough to be relevant, which gives him, in a way , that quality of humility, which apparently characterized him, among many others, of course.

The same is not the case with the rest of the Apostles, who restless in their benches -possibly in the 1st century, these were very similar to the famous Roman tricliniums- seem to discuss their own importance when occupying the places closest to the Master. And this, after all, makes their shadows, projected on the wall, resemble those of a group of grimacing mourners, whose professional presence was famous in medieval wakes, where their crocodile tears were as banal as their purpose or the nonsense of being the Master's favorite, which all the Apostles had.