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Medieval Interpretation Of The Last Supper

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This weeks reading has to do with a medieval interpretation of the last supper and the actual meaning behind. It seemed like for years the sculpture was being presented as Jesus and some of his apostles being peasants. Upon a first look at the image the untrained eye would agree with this assumption, but Jacqueline Jung explains why that description is wrong. She first looked into the reason as to why the sculpture was described as peasant representation of Jesus and discovered it had to do with the social situation in Germany at the time. After World War I it seems like the social rules no longer applied like before in Germany causing them to seemingly categorize this painting in such a way to maybe appease the lower class. Jung goes into

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