JUANES, Juan de (b. ca. 1523, Fuente de la Higuera, d. 1579, Bocairente) The Last Supper c. 1560 Oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid Juanes was especially adept at creating inspiring devotional images of Christ, the most famous of which represents the Saviour holding the Eucharistic wafer. The figure is excerpted from the artist's celebrated composition, the last Supper, itself an obvious paraphrase of Leonardo's masterpiece, a copy of which was at that time in the Cathedral of Valencia. As shown by the countless repetitions of the compositions, some made even in the 20th century, this imag
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JUANES, Juan de (b. ca. 1523, Fuente de la Higuera, d. 1579, Bocairente) The Last Supper c. 1560 Oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid Juanes was especially adept at creating inspiring devotional images of Christ, the most famous of which represents the Saviour holding the Eucharistic wafer. The figure is excerpted from the artist's celebrated composition, the last Supper, itself an obvious paraphrase of Leonardo's masterpiece, a copy of which was at that time in the Cathedral of Valencia. As shown by the countless repetitions of the compositions, some made even in the 20th century, this imag