The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 555 cm × 1,309 cm.
The Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese
Saints Peter and John flank Christ, with Judas the uneasy figure in red
Detail of child
Detail of Jester with a parrot on his arm and an Apostle picking his teeth with a fork
Last Supper in Christian art
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The Last Supper of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles has been a popular subject in Christian art, often as part of a cycle showing the Life of Christ. Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art date b
The Feast in the House of Levi
…painted by Veronese for a wall of a Dominican friary called the refectory of the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo. This painting was intended to be a Last Supper, to replace an earlier work by Titian of this subject destroyed by fire in 1571. The painting is directly tied to Luke, chapter 5, of the Bible which…
The Last Supper (1495-1498). Mural, tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic, 700 x 880 cm (22.9 x 28.8 ft). In the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church, Milan, Italy, it is Leonardo da Vinci's dramatic interpretation of Jesus' last meal before death. Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's late-1490s mural painting, being the best-known example.
Last Supper, by Dagnan-Bouveret, 1896
6th century Mosaic of the Last Supper in Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
Last Supper by James Tissot, between 1886 and 1894. Tissot shows the Apostles as they most probably ate the meal: on couches, which was the custom of the time.