Although it's been around for a while, I saw the Star Wars version of Da Vinci's Last Supper today via Digg.

It's a neat piece, and I think the artist did a great job of capturing the style of the poses in the shot, but the positioning of characters is really, really weak. He does, however, note that he wanted Anakin to be in the Christ position, but that the magazine editors kiboshed it. Way to know your stories, knobs -- how could you possibly do this picture and *not* put Anakin/Vader in the middle? And, who the hell is supposed to be Judas? Han? I can't see any justification for that; I can't fathom using the Last Supper imagery and not at least trying to match the characters to approximate equivalents.

Two minutes of research dug up the About.com Art History page on Da Vinci's painting, with a chart of who's who, as well as Bibleinfo's descriptions of each of the disciples.

Here's how I would have positioned characters (left to right), assuming that you wanted to try and incorporate characters from both trilogies:

Bartholomew: Leia (The Sincere Disciple, of royal birth)
James the Elder: Darth Maul (The Unknown Disciple)
Andrew: Qui-Gon Jinn (The First Called Disciple)
Judas: Palpatine (The Betrayer)
Peter: Luke (The Primary Disciple)
John: Amidala/Padme (The Youngest Disciple; the Beloved)
Christ: Vader
Thomas: Mace Windu (The Doubter, right?)
James Major: R2D2 (The Quiet Disciple)
Philip: C3P0 (The Analytical Disciple)
Matthew: Boba Fett (The Tax Collector)
Thaddeus: Han (The Misunderstood Disciple)
Simon: Chewbacca (The Zealous Disciple)

Some of my choices do actually match with the artist's choices, but I think many, if not most, of the positions were really more about aesthetics than representational. What do you think?