The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) contributed to its refusal by the Vatican who called it "blasphemous." 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 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
Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci was successfully righted on 24 January 1921. The "Regia Marina" planned to modernize "Leonardo da Vinci" by replacing her center turret with six AA guns, but ultimately lacked the funds to do so and sold her for scrap on 22 March 1923. Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was one of three dreadnoughts built for the "Regia Marina" (Italian Royal Navy) in the early 1910s. Completed just before the beginning of World War I, the ship saw no action and was sunk by a magazine explosion in 1916 with the loss of 248 officers and enlisted men. The