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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has five of the thirty paintings usually attributed to him. [1] A late work, the reserved Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470, Berlin) belongs among the masterworks of Early Netherlandish painting, marking a new development in Netherlandish portraiture. It no longer shows the sitter in front of a neutral background ...
Among Christus’s best known works, A Goldsmith in His Shop , signed and dated 1449, is also perhaps his most enigmatic. This view into a goldsmith’s stall, where a fashionably dressed couple chooses a wedding ring, conveys a sense of the opulent world of fifteenth-century burghers.
The Last Supper of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles has been a popular subject in Christian art, [1] often as part of a cycle showing the Life of Christ. Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome .
- Christ Pantocrator. Year: 537 AD. Style: Iconography. Location: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Cathedral was at the heart of the Byzantine Empire.
- Ognissanti Madonna — Giotto di Bondone. Year: 1310. Style: Gothic. Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. This altarpiece, painted for the Florentine Church of Ognissanti, had a profound impact on religious art.
- The Last Supper — Leonardo Da Vinci. Year: 1495–1498. Movement: High Renaissance. Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Da Vinci’s The Last Supper is probably the most important mural painting in the history of the world.
- Salvator Mundi — Leonardo da Vinci. Year: 1499–1510. Movement: High Renaissance. Location: Louvre, Abu Dhabi. In 2017, Salvator Mundi was sold by Christie’s in New York for $450.3 million, the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction.
- Da Vinci’s Last Supper. Date created: 1495-1498. Dimensions: 460 × 880 centimeters (181 × 346 inches) Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. The Last Supper is one of the ultimate masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, the Renaissance master and Italian polymath.
- Tintoretto’s Last Supper. Date created: 1592-1594. Dimensions: 365 × 568 centimeters (144 × 224 inches) Location: Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy.
- Rubens’s Last Supper. Date created: 1630-1631. Dimensions: 304 × 250 centimeters (120 × 98 inches) Location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy. Ruben’s painting of the Last Supper is the Baroque version of the scene and the second time that he tried to paint this subject.
- The Feast in the House of Levi – Paolo Veronese. Date created: 1573. Dimensions: 555 x 1,280 centimeters (18.2 x 41.99 feet) Location: Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy.
The Last Supper is the meal that Jesus shares with his disciples after his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. At the Last Supper, Jesus announces that one of his disciples will betray him. The meal is the subject of one of the greatest works of Renaissance art, a mural painted on the wall of a nun’s refectory by Leonardo da Vinci; it is also ...
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Petrus Christus Netherlandish. ca. 1450. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 605. Intended for private devotion, this painting depicts the lamentation over Christ’s dead body as a model for the viewer’s own contemplation and empathy.
