![]() ![]() ![]() Over an exquisitely painted silver goblet Jesus blesses the bread and wine consumed during the Passover meal. Jesus is the exact center of the composition the painting would be one of the first in northern Europe to use the technique of linear perspective. The Last Supper is a beautifully composed and detailed work that places Christ and his apostles at a bench table covered with a white tablecloth. (1464–1468) Central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, that sits in St. ![]() It depicts Jesus and his twelve disciples having their last meal of bread and wine just before Christ is arrested and crucified. Between the years 14, Bouts created his oil painting The Last Supper. It is thought that he eventually studied under Rogier van der Weyden. Sometime around 1415 Dieric Bouts was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. Artists in the Netherlands took oil painting to grand new heights, no more evident than in Rogier’s Descent from the Cross. In this period oil was introduced as a medium to carry pigments, and it brought dazzling new transparency effects to painting. Detail of the Virgin Mary from Rogier van der Weyden’s “Descent from the Cross.”īy the early 1400s European artists had mastered painting with water-based tempera paints. The pathos of this painting is extraordinary. You can count the golden threads on one man’s robe he is probably Joseph of Arimathea, the wealthy man who took responsibility for the burial of Jesus. The details in the painting are indescribable there is stubble on the face of Jesus, the wounds on his body spare no detail, tears pour from the swollen red eyes of the Virgin, who has fainted-her position a mirror of the dead Christ. I was nineteen when I visited Spain’s Prado museum and came across the 1435 oil painting The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden. I was blessed to see Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Wedding in London’s National Gallery. Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck are favorites of mine. To wit, I have always admired the 15th century painters of the Netherlands. For me that remains a durable link to the Christian world, and European art from those periods continue to be a touchstone in my artistic philosophy. I write this as someone born into a Catholic family you might call me a “lapsed Catholic.” As a child I learned of the medieval, gothic, and renaissance art of Europe-artworks rooted in Christian thought. I will contrast Ohlson’s irreverent photo with a brief overview of how visual artists in the West have portrayed The Last Supper-the final meal Jesus Christ shared with his apostles before being crucified. Deemed blasphemous by many, it was exhibited at the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Belgium in May of 2023. This essay will broach the subject of The Last Supper, a controversial artwork by photographer Elisabeth Ohlson. ![]()
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