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    2 months ago

    Connecting this to christian adaptation of Pagan holidays and motifs, however, is farfetched and ahistorical.

    a time when the ideas and imagery of (mostly pagan) Antiquity was reintroduced into christian europe

    It’s not like the Christian appropriation of non-christian things just ended sometime before the high renaissance. I’d argue it’s ongoing. And even if Leonardo did not appropriate, the Christians now reacting with fury to the depiction of “their” last supper are appropriating.