<P> First we visited the fading inimitable fresco of Leonardo da Vinci . How vain are copies! not in one, nor in any print, did i ever see the slightest approach to the expression in our Savior's face, such as it is in the original . Majesty and love--these are the words that would describe it--joined to an absence of all guile that expresses the divine nature more visibly than I ever saw it in any other picture . </P> <P> In Luis Buñuel's Spanish film Viridiana, a tableau vivant of Leonardo's painting is staged with beggars . Another beggar' photographs' the scene by flashing them . This scene contributed to its refusal by the Vatican who called it "blasphemous ." </P> <P> In Norman Jewison's 1973 film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar", in the Last Supper sequence, Jesus and the 12 apostles briefly mimic the posture of each character in Da Vinci's painting </P> <P> The painting is parodied in Mel Brooks's movie History of the World, Part I, making Leonardo a contemporary of Jesus . It is also parodied in the original movie MASH, in the scene where Hawkeye Pierce stages a "last supper" for Walt (Painless) Waldowski before his planned suicide . The various doctors, all in surgical scrubs, pose in imitation of the painting . </P>

Who is pictured in the last supper by leonardo da vinci