Leonardo’s ‘The Last Supper’ Started Out Queer and Got Queerer
Let’s look at the Renaissance painting and its legacy
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10 min readJun 1, 2020
There’s a paradox to Christianity. The religion longs to see itself as the religion of heterosexuality. But when trying to see its deity, Christians turn to queer artists.
And no depictions of Jesus has been more profound, or received by Christians as really Jesus, as Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last…