“Café Terrace at Night” by Vincent Van Gogh
When you first look at “Cafe Terrace at Night” by Vincent Van Gogh, it seems simple and straight-forward. It’s a scene of a beautiful French cafe lit up at night. However, in 2015, an art historian named Jared Baxter theorized that the painting is actually Vincent Van Gogh’s version of “The Last Supper”. If you look closely, there is one central figure with long hair, and they are surrounded by 12 people. One of them slips into the shadows, which could symbolize Judas. Baxter also theorizes that there are actually small crucifixes hidden throughout the painting. This actually isn’t too hard to believe, considering that Van Gogh tried to join the clergy, and he had a passion for spreading the gospel. Around the time that Vincent created that painting, he wrote in a letter to his brother Theo, “”tremendous need for, shall I say the word—for religion.”