Thinking about food and religion together brought to my mind the idea of The Last Supper image by da Vinci but made from food. However, I was pretty sure that someone else had probably already had this idea so I looked around for one and found this one made from biscuits by photographer Tom Altany.

I like this image because it's amusing and cute but also accurate as it mirrors the positions and actions of the disciples at the table really closely. I thought about doing something similar involving vegetables or something...

As an iconic image, The Last Supper has been repeated, recreated and changed to represent the ideas, parodies and messages of many people. I had a look at some of the ways it had been used to get some ideas...

Sopranos Last Supper-Photographer Annie Leibowitz 1999

Scene from The Simpsons echoing The Last Supper
with Homer as the Christ figure.

Lego Last Supper

Animal Protection advert carrying the slogan:
“One of you betrays us 150,000 times every year.”

Scene from the film Watchmen imitating The Last Supper.


David LaChapelle's Last Supper-from his 'Jesus is my homeboy'
series used as an illustration in I-D magazine in 2003.
Last Supper mimicking the famous Ipod ads.

Images and info on last supper reproductions from http://culturepopped.blogspot.com/
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