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Fig 5 - A marble bas relief
of the Cenacolo. For its sacrilegious spirit the natural
collocation of this Cenacolo bas relief is face down as a
tombstone and it is curious it could survive for 150 years
in the open before being used for that purpose. Here Bartholomew
unwraps his roll to be bitterly punished. St Peter has sliced
his panzer faust in three pieces with a butcher knife and
Judas waves merrily a couple of taurine balls. Jesus keeps
a stone face so to speak. It is the contrappasso of the Cenacolo
the event being here a destruction of virility. The sacrilegious
motives and the quality of execution make me think this is
a work of Leo himself. And that the Cenacolo could have been
a real institution so as to bestow a punishment for a nasty
guy.
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