補習-《最后的晚餐》中食物份量不斷增加

編者按：近日，美國兩位學者對1000年至2000年間繪制的52幅以“最后的晚餐”為主題的著名畫作進行分析比較后發現，在這一時期內，畫中擺放在耶穌和他的信徒面前的食物份量不斷增加。 Gallery staff carry a Bulgarian painting, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper, to hang it on the wall of a gallery in Sofia in May 2007. In a computer-assisted studies of 52 paintings of the Last Supper, a paid of US academics found that, over a 1,000 year period, the portions of food placed before Jesus and his disciples grew astonishingly. A pair of US academics have analysed 52 of the most famous paintings of the Last Supper painted between 1000 and 2000 -- and discovered that, over that period, the portions of food placed before Jesus and his disciples grew astonishingly. Using computer-aided design technology, they scanned the main dish, bread and plates and calculated the size of portion relative to the size of the average head in the painting. Over a thousand years, the size of the main dish progressively grew by 69.2 per cent, plate size by 65.6 percent and bread size by 23.1 percent, they found. The growing size reflects the success of agriculture over the ages, the researchers said. The last thousand years have witnessed dramatic increases in the production, availability, safety, abundance and affordability of food, said Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and applied economics at Cornell University. We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history's most famous dinner. The study, published in Britain's International Journal of Obesity, is co-authored by Wansink's brother, Craig, a Presbyterian minister and professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. The Bible makes no mention of what was eaten at the Last Supper. But the main dishes depicted in the paintings contained fish or eel (18 percent), lamb (14 percent) and pork (seven percent).

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