Focus on this artwork and discuss the Themes in the Aleppo Room.
There's a depiction of the Last Supper in which Jesus and his disciples sit on the floor, Oriental-style. Another one shows women with flaming halos surrounding their heads. The paintings on the walls of this salon rife has a Christian symbolism.  The wooden panels of this salon came from a wealthy Syrian merchant and date back to the 17th century, Isa ibn Butrus. The owner of the house in which these panels were found, had deliberately merged Christian and Islamic iconography in these images, selecting for the murals biblical figures who also play a role in the Quran. Unlike most of his business partners in Syria at that time, Isa ibn Butrus was a Christian.Some of the themes in the Aleppo Room
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
The central panels are found in the back part of the main niche, to the left and right of a wall cupboard. Courtly themes are repeated on the left-side panel, including a ruler sitting on a throne, a hunt and a hunting party with a prince holding a falcon. In contrast, Christian themes are portrayed on the right-side panel, and include the Last Supper, Salome's dance in front of King Herod and the sacrifice of Isaac. Other panels around the room have individual depictions from either courtly or Christian subject matters, such as the love story of Leila and Majnun of Nizami (1141–1202) from the Haft Paykar, or the Virgin Mary and Child or Saint George.Real and imaginary animals are depicted alongside. It is the variety of the themes of these paintings that make these earliest surviving wall panels such a comprehensive collection, a variety that could perhaps only have arisen in the Syrian trading town Aleppo.
Last Supper Quran Aleppo Syria Christian Oriental-style