Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Last Supper (tapestry)
|
Collection:
|
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
|
|
Preferred Title:
|
Last Supper (tapestry)
|
|
Image View:
|
Detail, Jesus with wine and bread on the table; to the right, Thomas with raised index finger
|
|
Creator:
|
after Leonardo da Vinci (Italian artist, 1452-1519); unknown (Flemish)
|
|
Location:
|
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 43789
|
|
Location Note:
|
Pinacoteca; Room VIII
|
|
GPS:
|
+41.906389+12.454444
|
|
Date:
|
1532 (creation)
|
|
Cultural Context:
|
Flemish
|
|
Style Period:
|
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
|
|
Work Type 1:
|
tapestry (wall hanging)
|
|
Classification:
|
textiles, weaving and fiber arts
|
|
Material:
|
dyed wool
|
|
Technique:
|
tapestry (process)
|
|
Description:
|
A tapestry of Flemish manufacture reproducing, at full scale, Leonardo's Last Supper (1494-1499). The foreground with table and figures is faithful to Leonardo, but the background has an elaborate architecture and landscape in the distance not seen in the original. The Brussels artists’ Guild of Saint Luke secured a monopoly in 1476 over the fabrication of figurative tapestry cartoons. Thereafter, Brussels weavers refined and perfected the techniques with which they could reproduce the painterly effects of an artist’s cartoon. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum.org)
|
|
Collection:
|
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
|
|
Identifier:
|
7A3-RE-VM-LST-A04
|
|
Rights:
|
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
|