Last Supper Altar (Dirk Bouts)
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| Last Supper Altar |
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| Dirk Bouts , 1464-1467 |
| oil on wood |
| 180 × 290 cm |
| Sint Pieter (Lions) |
The Last Supper altar is a 180 × 290 cm triptych by Dirk Bouts the Elder. Ä. and is considered one of his main works. The picture, oil on wood, painted between 1464 and 1467, is in the treasury of the Sint Pieter church in Leuven . The client was the Brotherhood of the Holy Sacrament. The contract with the brotherhood shows that Dirk Bouts receives 200 Rhenish guilders , 1,000 daily wages for a master mason, for the picture. To do this, however, he had to undertake not to paint any other picture and pay for the materials himself. After his death in 1475 , his two sons Aelbert Bouts and Dirk Bouts the Elder were born in 1486 . J. commissioned to paint the outside of the wing of her father's altar in Sint Pieter.
Motif
The central panel, constructed with a central perspective , shows Jesus with the disciples at the Last Supper . It shows the moment when Jesus speaks the words: “Do this in memory of me”, with which he justifies the Eucharist according to church tradition . Two men standing at the table are probably the heads of the brotherhood. It is not known who the two people looking through a window in the back wall are.
The elongated face of Jesus, facing the viewer, is reminiscent of depictions on the handkerchief of Veronica . Jesus performs the blessing gesture of Salvator Mundi .
On the two wings, scenes from the Old Testament are depicted, the content of which is related to the Eucharist. On the upper part of the left wing the priest Melchizedek can be seen offering bread and wine to Abraham , below that the Passover meal is shown. The Mannalese is shown in the upper part of the right wing . Below is Elijah in the desert after killing the priests of the demon Baal . God sends an angel to provide him with bread.
literature
- Catheline Périer-D'Ieteren: Dieric Bouts: The complete works . Mercator Fund , Brussels 2006, ISBN 90-6153-638-3 .
- Dirk de Vos: Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling . DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7201-7 , p. 117-126 .