LAST SUPPER. OIL ON BOARD. CASILLIAN SCHOOL, SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Paintings
Reference: ZE383
The Last Supper. Oil on panel. Castilian school, 16th century. It has faults. This oil painting on panel presents a figurative image against a neutral background, with a checkered tiled floor arranged, like everything else, in a focal perspective. Around a rectangular table (with two figures at its corners, their backs to the viewer), a total of twelve figures dressed in tunics and cloaks are positioned, and in the center of the painting, another man, bathed in light. On the table, covered with a white cloth, food is arranged on plates, along with jugs, bottles, round loaves of bread, goblets, and other items. This Last Supper follows typical European Renaissance conventions (compare it, noting the differences, with Leonardo da Vinci's, painted between 1495 and 1498 for the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, for example). Italian influence is evident, but it does not directly adhere to those models. Compare it with the Last Supper attributed to the workshop of Pedro Berruguete, circa 1495-1500, now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), or, especially considering the lack of expressiveness in this panel, with Juan de Juanes's Last Supper of circa 1562 (Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain). Iconographically, the abundant use of yellow in the clothing is striking, given that it was usually reserved for the clothing of Judas (character 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 has been 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 €
