The Last Supper - with beer
This picture hangs on the wall in Bir & Fud, Rome. It depicts the Last Supper, but in place of Christ and the Apostles are luminaries of the Italian beer scene. Manuele Colonna, proprietor of my favourite pub, takes the place of the anointed one. In the forground on the right is Lorenzo "Kuaska" Dabove, the country's leading beer writer. As you can see, those chaps are truly messianic when it comes to promoting fine beer . . .
Questo quadro è sul muro al Bir e Fud Bar a Roma. Dipinge il Cenacolo, ma invece di Cristo e gli Apostoli ci sono i conosciuti del mondo italiano della birra. Manuele Colonna, padrone del mio pub preferito, prende il posto di quello consacrato. Lorenzo Dabove, lo scrittore più importante del paese, è più vicino a destra. È ovvio che questi tipi sono veramente messianici a proposito del promuovere la buona birra . . .
Stonch lives in London, where he runs a pub.
7 comments:
Classy. The Bull & Castle menus feature Ribera's Silenus adjusted to include the management.
The "Italian quarter" in Dublin (built and mostly owned by an Italophile squillionaire) features a modern Irish Last Supper photo as well. No beer though, sadly.
Hi Stonch, I'm the author of the Last Supper. Thank you for your post, you can find a high-res image at this url http://stonch.blogspot.com/2008/03/last-supper-with-beer.html
See you next time in Rome!
Sorry, this is the right link
http://www.domozimurghi.org/images/misc/last_supper.jpg
Thanks Andrea, I've replaced the image with the high resolution version. It's a great piece of work!
Are the beers on the table Thomas Hardy and Birra del Borgo Duchessa?
The guy on the right in front of the table looks pretty much like Lorenzo aka Kuaska... LOL.
Thank you Stonch. Yes, the beers are Duchessa and an old-style bottle of Thomas Hardy's Ale. There are other "vip" in the picture: on the left side, symmetrically to Kuaska, you can see Leonardo Di Vincenzo, brewer of Birra del Borgo. On the left side too, standing behind, is Gabriele Bonci, the famous chef of Bir & Fud. The other are members of our Domozimurghi Romani association and friends of us. You can recognize much of them (including me eheh) comparing the picture with this your photo taken in Ma che siete venuti a fa ;-)
Methinks Stonch is guilty of a little false modesty if that's typical of his 'pidgin Italian picked up through osmosis'!
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