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The widespread fame of Leonardo DaVinci's painting of the Last Supper (dated between 1495-98) has inadvertently shaped people's impression of what that meal must have been like. Other artists have painted quite different scenarios, effectively challenging Leonardo's hegemony. Biblical studies scholars likewise note that much of the art portraying the Last Supper fails to accurately indicate what a typical 1st century AD meal setting was probably like nor does some of it consider who might have been there besides Jesus and his apostles (women? children?).

Speaker: Florence Gillman, PhD, STD. has been a Docent at the Timken since 2022 and a member of USD’s faculty since 1986. She previously served as Chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Coordinator of the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Coordinator of the Program in Classics.