A common belief surrounding the last supper
is that the same model was
used for both Jesus and Judas. The
story often goes that the innocent
looking young man, a baker, posed at
nineteen for Jesus. Some years later Leonardo discovered a hard bitten
criminal as the model for Judas, not
realizing he was the same man. There
is no evidence that Da vinci used the
same model for both figures & the
story usually overestimates the time it took Leonardo to finish the mural. Some writers identify the person to
Jesus right not with the Apostle John
(as is supposed by iconographical
tradition and confirmed by art
historians) but with Mary Magdalene.
