An Olympics Scene Draws Scorn. Was It Really Referencing ‘The Last Supper’?

A screen showing Philippe Katerine's performance during the Olympics’ opening ceremony in Paris on Friday.A performance during the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday has drawn criticism from church leaders and conservative politicians for a perceived likeness to Leonardo da Vinci’s depiction of a biblical scene in “The Last Supper,” with some calling it a “mockery” of Christianity.

The event’s planners and organizers have denied that the sequence was intended to mock or offend, and have remained largely vague about the references associated with the images.

In the performance broadcast during the ceremony, a woman wearing a silver, halo-like headdress stood at the center of a long…