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    Back to InboxThe tableau vivant “Les Festivités" from the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony.
    Tom Smith
    July 31, 2024, 2:01 am -

    This artistic representation from the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony was deemed offensive by many Christians (including Malta’s archbishop Charles Scicluna) who claimed that it misrepresented the Last Supper.

    However Paris Olympic’s artistic director Thomas Jolly insisted that the Last Supper was never the inspiration. Instead the inspiration for the tableau “Les Festivités" was Dionysius, "the god of celebrations and wine in Greek mythology and the father of Sequana, the goddess of the Seine River".

    Does the tableau vivant really evoke the biblical scene of the Last Supper? Well, for me it absolutely does not. For one, the table is crowded with people standing up, numbering well beyond the twelve of the Last Supper. Secondly, there are no cups of wine or plates of bread anywhere. How can one see the Last Supper in this?

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