"the Last Supper", Spain Late 15th Century

Large oil on softwood panel depicting the Last Supper, Spain (Aragon or Castile), late 15th - early 16th century. The Last Supper was one of the founding events of Christianity. The scene recounts the last meal that Jesus Christ shared with the twelve apostles on the evening of Holy Thursday, before Passover, shortly before his arrest. After celebrating Passover with them, he instituted the Eucharist, according to three of the four canonical Gospels, saying: "This is my body, this is my blood." Two canvas panels with heavy reinforcement on the back. Very fine polychromy, with very old overpainting within the canvas. Spain (Aragon or Castile), last quarter of the 15th century - very beginning of the 16th century. Unframed, 102 x 90 cm