Raffaello - Das letzte Abendmahl, 195r

This drawing shows a group of figures seated behind a long table, framed by two prominent architectural arches and a central pillar. The figures are rendered with quick, gestural lines that capture their movement and reactions, with Christ positioned centrally under the right-hand arch. The composition explores how architectural space can be used to organize and rhythmically group the participants of the sacred meal.

The sketch reflects the High Renaissance pursuit of harmonic proportion and the 'concinnitas' (congruity) championed by Neoplatonic thinkers. In the context of the Western tradition, the Last Supper represents the transition from the physical bread and wine to a spiritual reality, a concept of transmutation that paralleled alchemical and mystical ideas regarding the refinement of the soul.