LAST SUPPER. OIL ON BOARD. CASILLIAN SCHOOL, SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.
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Reference: ZE383
Last Supper. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century. It has faults. An oil on panel painting depicting a figurative image against a neutral background, with a checkered tile floor arranged, like everything else, in focal perspective. Around a rectangular table (with two figures at the corners, their backs to the viewer), are a total of twelve figures dressed in tunics and cloaks, and in the center of the painting, another man, surrounded by light. On the table, covered with a white cloth, food can be seen arranged on plates, jugs, bottles, round loaves of bread, glasses, etc. This Last Supper follows typical European Renaissance patterns (compare, noting the differences, with the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, made between 1495 and 1498 for the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, for example). Italian influence can be seen, but without directly following those models. Compare with the Last Supper attributed to the workshop of Pedro Berruguete from around 1495-1500, which is housed in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), or, especially noting the lack of expressiveness in this panel, with the Last Supper from around 1562 by Juan de Juanes (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain). Iconographically, the abundant use of yellow in the clothing is striking, given that it was usually reserved for the attire of Judas (the figure on the left, with his back to the viewer, holding a bag of coins in his hand) and that the moment of the revelation of the betrayal of one of the disciples was chosen (expressiveness is absent from the faces but not from the hands of the rest of the characters).
· Size: 141x10x90 cms. int. 122x73 cms.
7.500 €
