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I'd take another look on the painting with different kinds of cameras and see if the figure was feminin in origin or not; I've heard many so called " theories" behind all of the figures, I don't know which ones to believe. It is said that the figure in fact is Peter, but he's given a female appearence to show his "purity". I don't know for that, the church didn't realy had it going for women ( I don't know in Da Vinci's place).

I also heard that it is a women, but not Magdalena. there wasn't a Peter either, she was one of the many feminine pupils among the apostels ( who weren't with as many as the bible tells, there were about forty, the missing ones were either gay or feminin)

I heard the previous theories posted here too. I 've heard loads of others too. I don't realy have an opinion of y own on this, nor did I read the Da Vinci Code. I am not saying that which I posted here above is correct. I jst wanted to add this and see what you think about it.