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Last Supper
noun
- the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper ( def 1 ).
- a work of art representing this.
- The Last Supper, a mural (1495鈥98) by Leonardo da Vinci.
Last Supper
noun
- the Last Supperthe meal eaten by Christ with his disciples on the night before his Crucifixion, during which he is believed to have instituted the Eucharist
Example Sentences
For Christians, the Maundy Thursday service marks the Last Supper - and the King's message speaks of the humility of Jesus who "knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon him".
Meanwhile, some viewers were upset by a scene involving drag queens which many interpreted as a reference to the Last Supper, but artistic director Thomas Jolly said was a reference to pagan gods.
The most fascinating is the complex compositional analysis of the figures in Leonardo鈥檚 second most famous painting, 鈥淭he Last Supper,鈥 that vast fresco in a communal dining room of a Dominican convent in Milan.
But it鈥檚 the way she employs her gaze in that Last Supper monologue and every moment of 鈥淭he Penguin鈥 that captures the extraordinariness of a little-known character in the 鈥淏atman鈥 universe.
The criticized tableau evoked an assemblage of Greek gods, not 鈥淭he Last Supper,鈥 and Khelif is, in fact, a woman.
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