Salvini criticizes Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, but posts wrong Last Supper

Art-historical gaffe for Deputy Prime Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini. In one of his latest posts on social media, the current transport minister criticized the Opening Cere mony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, deeming disrespectful a moment of the ceremony in which some actors created a sort of queer cen acle by arranging themselves like the characters of Leonardo da Vinci’sLast Supper , the famous vincian cenacle, which, moreover, is located in Milan, the city where the Lega leader was born. Salvini posted, on Facebook and Instagram, a comparison image, divided in two: at the top the Olympic Ceremony, at the bottom what was presented in the post as “Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper.” Too bad Salvini posted the wrong Last Supper.

Salvini’s image, in fact, is not that of Leonardo’s painting in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, but a reproduction made a few years ago, a painting by a contemporary painter who sells his own works online. “Opening the Olympics by offending billions of Christians around the world was a very bad start, dear Frenchmen. Those who want respect, bring respect. Sleazebags”: so writes Matteo Salvini accompanying the wrong Leonardo da Vinci. I wonder how many of his commentators focused on the image rather than the words. In any case, a visit to the Last Supper, or even an art history book, is urgently needed.

Salvini criticizes Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, but posts wrong Last Supper

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