The Last Supper, Tintoretto
Tintoretto·The Last Supper·1592–94·Oil on canvas·San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice↓

Tintoretto Italian, 1518 – 1594

The Last Supper, 1592–94

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Tintoretto sets the Last Supper in a dim Venetian inn, with the table running away from us on a steep diagonal. Servants clear dishes and a woman carries a plate in the foreground, while Christ gives bread to an apostle, his halo blazing. Painted in the artist's last years for the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, it points towards Baroque drama.

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Smoke from the hanging oil lamp turns into a swarm of translucent angels that drift across the ceiling.

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