Chinese artwork from Vatican on show at Palace Museum

For people who are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the version being exhibited at the Palace Museum in Beijing may look familiar yet peculiar.

There is Jesus Christ and his 12 apostles, but each character has a Chinese face and wears traditional Chinese clothes, and Chinese dishes are on the table.

In another painting, Mary, Jesus Christ and an angel are in a typical Chinese garden in which there is a towering rock. The composition may recall traditional figurative painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279).