In Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper for many centuries the populace had been told that a man sits beside Jesus. Da Vinci created that androgynous figure sitting next to Jesus. The genius is that I looked on the painting for most of my life seeing a man there the young John. I was told that women were not allowed at the table. The Last Supper was about Communion. It is the sacrament of wine and bread that we partake in memory of him. As a child I looked on seeing only men at the table and that women were not allowed. The chosen twelve apostles were selected and they were all men. After the book Da Vinci Code Dan Brown's book we are told that a woman Mary Magdalene is sitting at the table.