naomi on the button as usual.
And here's a thought (which is, by the way, nothing to do with Dan Brown): who was Leonardo thinking of when he painted the person on Jesus' right in his Last Supper?
The faithful claim that it was John, which is risible. John was a Galilean fisherman who would almost certainly have been bearded like others. He would have had a weatherbeaten face through being out at sea in all weathers and horny hands through repeatedly casting and retrieving nets.
The person on Jesus' right has an oval face with a clear complexion, long auburn hair and very delicate hands with slim fingers. Undoubtedly a woman.
It's not a photograph, of course, but what was in Leonardo's mind? Did he realise that, as naomi says, it is very unlikely that Jesus would have been unmarried and so painted the scene as he realistically imagined it?
And what is a disciple, except someone who listens to the teacher, as Mary and Martha of Bethany certainly did, and Mary of Magdala?