The Last Supper

Christ sits at the center of a crowded table, his head framed by a radiant halo of light as he addresses his disciples. In the foreground, one disciple pours wine into a shallow bowl while another stands with his back to the viewer, and a basket of bread rests on the floor. A parrot perches on a rod in the background, a symbolic detail common in Northern European art of the period.

This work belongs to a 17th-century Passion cycle, reflecting the technical precision and religious symbolism of the Low Countries' engraving tradition. While primarily devotional, the depiction of the Eucharist—the mystery of bread and wine becoming body and blood—intersects with the Western esoteric interest in the transformation of matter and the symbolic 'spiritualization' of the physical.