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Good Morning Dan, and happy Saturday to all!

The story of the Last Supper continues;

#36 Verkamp
#38 Tissot
#43 Hole

Greatly appreciate this gathering place Dan!

Good morning to All.
Of interest: #41, a Greek icon, oil painting on wood covered with a thin layer of brass.

#48, Jaume Huguet - painter of the Spanish Early Renaissance. His distinctive style, the symmetry of the figures, the use of a gold backdrop and his very skilled students in his workshop, made him an artist in high demand.

#49, Cranach - This is the center panel of a larger narrative of the Passion of Christ. It is called The Reformation Altarpiece. Cranach was a friend and supporter of Martin Luther, one of the disciples has been identified as Luther himself. Interesting that Christ is offering a piece of bread to Judas...

#54, a gorgeous page from a Florentine gradual.

#55 a very somber Last Supper by Mcnaughton.

The “Last Supper”?

The fact that a meal took place that evening, among friends and disciples with their Rabbi, or that that was the last meal they shared together before Christ’s passion and crucifixion, is of no real significance.

What is significant is that, in that upper room, Christ instituted the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

This event—and this is by no means mere semantics—should not be referred to as the Last Supper, but rather as the First Mass.

Tomorrow: the first communion.

Stop injecting your own brand of Christianity into these threads. They are for everyone. There are other threads labeled “Catholic Caucus” which would welcome such comments, as you know.

Good Morning, Dan. :-)

Greetings, Mary-Lou!

etabeta, your information greatly helps us to appreciate these pieces.

RE: #49 Cranach - do you know which one is Luther?

Thank you etabeta!

“...brand...”

Okay boomer.

Let me be the first to mention your big finish here with the Dagman-Bouveret…the incredible light and the wonderfully dour and troubled Peter. An excellent closer to a fantastic and varied group.

You will appreciate tomorrow’s thread, I expect. I gathered all the images which feature the bread and wine. There are forty of them.

Then, on Monday, we’ll see all the images on foot-washing.

The Son of God predicting your imminent triple-denial will do that to a fellow. Fabulous how the artist worked that drama into it.

There were more than a few in this room that we would say, in our modern turn of phrase, had pretty rough nights…Peter’s night got rough early on (right here) and only kept going downhill from there. The artist really nailed that here.

Well..if they shaved...anyway, my choice would be the fourth from Judas, black garment and white collar.

Very well expressed, Scott.

None of them had any inkling yet of the comfort that the Holy Spirit would bring to them—His introduction was still weeks away—so when Jesus was apart from them, they felt abandoned and hopeless. The picture in Mark of the young man running away, naked and fearful, is representative.

I hope you will forgive my ignorance here Dan, because I haven’t seen very many images of the Last Supper. Mainly Leonardo’s.
My curiosity is aroused by so many art works with a woman either very close to Jesus, or with her head laid down on the table in front of him.
Is this Mary Magdalene?

You can see that the tradition that Judas had red hair started fairly early!

In John 13:23: "One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him." The conventional wisdom is that John is referring here to himself.