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The Last Supper
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About this work
The Christian sacrament of the Eucharist is traced to the Last Supper, when Christ said of the wine, “This is my blood.” For artists, the scene was full of both symbolic and narrative potential. Albrecht Dürer created a compact, vertical composition that focuses on the closeness of the disciples and the moment, wine flowing, when Christ reveals his fate. Dürer’s ingenious woodcut technique includes the creation of a halo made from parallel lines around Christ’s head that continue outward to define the shadow of the vaulted room.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Large Passion: The Last Supper, 1510. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut; sheet: 40 x 28.8 cm (15 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Ralph King, 1926.112
