The specialists in History of the Art have kept awake for the first time what there was in the menu of one of the most famous pictures of the world: Last dinner, of Leonardo l$da Vinci (1452-1519).

Instead of the symbolic lamb of Passover, the historian John Varriano concluded that the main plate of the last dinner, that Jesus had with his disciples before his death, went eel to the grill decorated with slices of orange. The result of the investigation, published in Gastronomic the American magazine, sample that the food portrayed by the teacher Gives Vinci was typical of the Italian Renaissance (1460-1500).

It does not surprise that this data comes to the light after five centuries since the masterpiece was finished (1495-98), since very few lovers of the art paid attention to the food served in the table.

The reason, according to the correspondent of the BBC in Milan, where the painting adorns the wall of the ex- convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is that the main subject is the undeniable human drama that shows the moment at which Christ leaves perplex to his nearer disciples with the revelation of which one of is going it to them to betray.

The correspondent of the BBC Mark Duff says that always she had assumed myself that the companions at table opposite had a lamb plate that, as the wine and the bread that appear in the fresh air, agrees with the Christian symbolism and, in particular, with the image of Jesus like the lamb given in sacrifice to God in purification of the human sins.

In addition, the fast deterioration of the painting after its conclusion in 1498 practically inspected exhaustive impossible. But now, thanks to the most recent restoration of the mural, in 1999, the experts have been able, finally, to analyze what food be served in the table.

According to the Varriano historian, the eels were not only a very popular plate in Renaissance Italy, but also they could have been one of the favorite meals of Gives Vinci, since they appear in listings of purchase between personal notes of the Italian genius. Varriano, professor of Art in the Faculty of Mount Holyoke, in the state of Massachusetts, presented/displayed its conjectures in a study of five pages.

Source: BBCMundo