After Juan de Juanes, 19th century

Spanish school of the XIX century. After JUAN DE JUANES (Valencia?, 1510 - Bocairente, Valencia, 1579).
"The Last Supper".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It presents faults in the polychrome and Repainting.
Measurements: 56 x 78 cm.

In this canvas the author reproduces the "Last Supper" painted by Juan de Juanes around 1562 for the main altarpiece of the church of San Esteban (Valencia), and currently preserved in the Prado Museum. The Last Supper is one of the most relevant representations in the history of Western art. In the first place, because it is the concrete moment in which the sacrament of the Eucharist is established, since Jesus made the analogy between his body and the bread, and the wine and his blood. Secondly, the mythical scene that was painted by Leonardo, established the basis of Renaissance aesthetics, thus providing a conception of perspective that was hegemonic until well into the twentieth century.