The Last Supper has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies in pop culture. Here are some examples.

Luis Bunuel, Viridiana, 1961

Photographer Howard Schatz had an idea: place actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters. Such was the premise behind his book, In Character: Actors Acting, which captures some of Hollywood’s most emotive stars in the act of, well, making faces. Here are some of the best.

HUGH LAURIE

1. You are a dedicated father who, with your wife, has just sat down to dinner with your 15-year-old daughter, who is defiantly announcing that she’s pregnant. 2. You are a fashion designer on the morning of your big runway show, realizing that nothing in the collection is ready or fabulous. 3. You are a blustering, pompous member of the British Parliament, giving a speech that is being broadcast on the BBC, and you’re thrilled at the sound of your own voice.

800-pound grizzly bear Brutus is the curious best friend to renowned naturalist Casey Anderson, who has raised him since birth. Together, they've set out on a yearlong mission to chronicle the lives of Yellowstone's vulnerable grizzly bears.

Imagine that your best friend has a head the size of a beach ball, and dinner-sized paws with six-inch daggers on the end of each finger that could kill you in one swipe?

Akiyoshi Kitaoka considers himself more a scientist than an artist, but a number of painters and graphic artists have used these same types of perceptual tricks to explore how the brain perceives and interprets images.

These images might make sensitive observers feel dizzy or even sick. If you don't feel so good after looking at these images you better leave this page.

Here’s a guy you don’t ever want to pick a fight with: Nikolay "Russian Giant" Valuev, who, at 7 feet tall, absolutely towers over his opponents (before pummelling them to oblivion).

Nikolay also happens to be the heaviest and tallest heavyweight boxing champion in history.

His British challenger has a mountain to climb, but in fact the Russian giant is a sensitive soul who wooed his wife with love poems and likes a bit of Miss Marple. His wife is tiny [5ft 2in] and they have two small children.