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| One of my favorite sculptures, not for the art, but the excuse. This is a wood carving of the "14 disciples". True Catholics, of course, know there are only twelve disciples, but apparently the artist didn't make them large enough, and so had some extra room to play with. At least, to his credit, he didn't invent two more disciples (Harold and Curly?), but included carvings of the Baby Jesus instead. However, after seeing that, I couldn't help remembering a Monty Python sketch called "The Penultimate Supper", wherein Michaelangelo is brought before the pope to be chastised for his depiction of a Last Supper with 28 disciples and 3 Christs. Wonder if this was their motivation? |
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