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Last Supper, the last meal Christ took with his 12 disciples, is described in all four Gospels (Matthew 26:17-29; Mark 14:12-25; Luke 22:7-23; John 13:1-30). Knowing his hour had come and that he must leave this world, Jesus ordered the Passover supper be organized in the house of a certain man. (Passover is the Jewish festival celebrating Exodus from the Egyptian imprisonment).
Before the supper Christ “rose from the table, took off his outer garment and, taking a towel, tied it round him. Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples’ feet and to wipe them with a towel.
When he came to Simon Peter, Peter protested that the Lord must not wash the feet of his disciples and that he will never let Jesus wash his feet. Jesus replied, 'You do not understand now what I am doing, but one day you will.' 'If I do not wash you you have no part with me.' (John 13: 6-8). After washing their feet Jesus put on his garment and sat down again. (John 13:4-5).
During the supper Jesus said that one of his disciples would betray him, but ‘it would be better for that man if he had never been born’ (Matthew 26:24). Then Judas spoke, the one who was to betray him: ‘Rabbi, surely you do not mean me?’ Jesus replied, ‘You have said it.’ (Matthew 26:25).
During supper Jesus took bread, broke it , and gave to his disciples with the words: ‘Take this and eat; this is my body.’ (Matthew 26:26). Then he took a cup with wine and offered it to the disciples: 'Drink from it, all of you. For this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, shed for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, never again shall I drink from this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.' (Matthew 26:27- 29).
After singing the Passover hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.

The Last Supper in Florence
Artistic ritual in the convent refectory.

  giotto_scrovegni.jpg (61169 byte)     Duccio di Buoninsegna. Maestà (back, central panel): The Last Supper.   Pietro Lorenzetti. The Last Supper.
 

Giotto di Bondone (1304-06) Padova - Cappella degli Scrovegni

 

Giotto di Bondone München - Alte Pinakothek

 

Duccio di Buoninsegna. Maestà: back, central panel (1308-11) Siena - Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

 

Pietro Lorenzetti. (1320-1330)  Assisi - Trancept of the Lower Church, San Francesco

                     
    giovanni_di_corraduccio_1500_2.gif (100804 byte)     Dieric Bouts the Elder. Last Supper (central section of an alterpiece).  
Jaume Serra (1370-1400)
Palermo - Museo Nazionale
  Sassetta (1423) Siena - Pinacoteca Nazionale   Giovanni di Corraduccio (1430?) Foligno - S. Anna Monastery   Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) Roma - Cappella Sistina   Dieric Bouts the Elder central section of an alterpiece (1464-1467) Louvain, Belgium - Sankt Peter   Jaume Huguet (c. 1470) Barcelona -
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
                     
  perugino_1495.jpg (74988 byte)   leonardo_1.jpg (173130 byte)       The Last Supper

Master of the Housebook (1480?) Berlin - Staatliche Museen

 

Pietro Perugino (1493-96) Foligno - Convent of the Tertiary Franciscans

 

Leonardo da Vinci (1498) Milan - Santa Maria delle Grazie, Refectory

 

Tilman Riemenschneider (1499-1505) Rothenburg - Church of St James

 

Jörg Ratgeb (1519) Stuttgart - Staatsgalerie

 

Hans Holbein the Younger (1524-25) Basle -
Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung

                     
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Jacopo Bassano  (1542) Rome - Galleria Borghese

  Pieter Pourbus (1548) Bruges - Groeninge Museum   Juan de Juanes (1560)
Madrid - Museo del Prado

 

  Tintoretto (1578-1581)
Venice - Scuola grande di San Rocco
  Tintoretto (1582-1594) Venice - S. Giorgio Maggiore   Otto van Veen (1592) Antwerp - O. L. Vrouwekathedraal

 

                     
        Peter Paul Rubens. The Last Supper.   Nicolas Poussin. The Last Supper.
Federico Barocci (1599) Chapel of the Urbino - Holy Sacrament, Urbino Cathedra   Simon Vouet (1615-20)
Loreto - Palazzo Apostolico
  Daniele Crespi (1624-25) Milan - Pinacoteca di Brera   Valentin de Boulogne (1625-26) Rome - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica   Peter Paul Rubens. The Last Supper. Study (1630)  Moscow - The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts   Nicolas Poussin (1640)  Grantham, UK - The Trustees of Rutland Trust, Belvoir Castle
           
 
 
 
   
The Last Supper   antonio_orgiazzi_1780.gif (68660 byte)     Nikolay Gay. The Last Supper.   guttuso_1929.jpg (102351 byte)   sassu_1929_privata.jpg (55939 byte)
Philippe de Champaigne (1645) Paris - Musée du Louvre   Antonio Orgiazzi (1750)  

Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

  Nikolay Gay (1863) St. Petersburg - The Russian Museum   Renato Guttuso (1929)   Aligi Sassu (1929) - Collezione privata
                     
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Salvador Dalì (1955) Washington, D.C - National Gallery,

 

Andy Warhol (1986)

  Andy Warhol (1986)   Rolando Saenz (1997) Realitos, Texas, USA - The Lord's Last Supper Monument        
                     

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