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
Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci would light it as it lights us. Claims are sometimes made that Leonardo da Vinci was an alchemist. He was trained in the workshop of Verrocchio, who according to Vasari, was an able alchemist. Leonardo was a chemist in so much as that he experimented with different media for suspending paint pigment. In the painting of murals, his experiments resulted in notorious failures with the "Last Supper" deteriorating within a century, and the "Battle of Anghiari" running off the wall. In Leonardo's many pages of notes about artistic processes, there are some that pertain to the use of silver and