Stor upprördhet efter invigningen av OS 2024 i Paris härom kvällen. Screenshots och jämförelser med da Vincis “Nattvarden” t ex har cirkulerat.
Världsledare tycks eniga om att vända sig till högsta instans i ärendet.
(TT, 30 juli)
Ceremonins regissör, Thomas Jolly, har försvarat sig mot beskyllningar om blasfemi. Att arrangemanget vid bordet inte alls parafraserade Kristus och apostlarna, utan ett liknande motiv och gästabud, kopplat till guden Dionysos.
Thomas Jolly, the ceremony’s queer artistic director, clarified that the scene was meant to celebrate diversity and French gastronomy, not to mock Christianity. “It’s not my inspiration and that should be pretty obvious.
There’s Dionysus arriving on a table. Why is he there? First and foremost because he is the god of celebration in Greek mythology and the tableau is called ‘Festivity’,” explained Jolly. “He is also the god of wine, which is also one of the jewels of France, and the father of Séquana, the goddess of the river Seine,” he continued. “The idea was to depict a big pagan celebration, linked to the gods of Olympus, and thus the Olympics.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Festin_des_dieux
Le Festin des dieux (“The Feast of the Gods”) is a painting by the Dutch painter Jan van Bijlert, created around 1635–1640. It is in the Musée Magnin in Dijon, France. […]
Och ändå är det Den sista måltiden av da Vinci som alla verkar ha sett…