Seen through a wide, shallow, ornamental, stone arch, seventeen light-skinned people and a dog gather around or near a long banquet table set with plates of food in this horizontal painting. The table angles away from us so the short, right side is closest to us in the darkened room, which is lined along the far wall with shallow columns and capitals. To our left, an arched doorway in the room opens to a view of a stone structure and a sliver of blue sky. A gleaming, gold candelabra with curving arms hangs over the table from a coffered, possibly wooden ceiling. The table is covered with a…
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The Last Supper

Sebastiano Ricci (Venetian, 1659 - 1734)

1713/1714

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 67 x 104 cm (26 3/8 x 40 15/16 in.) ; framed: 85.7 x 122.6 x 8.6 cm (33 3/4 x 48 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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