Jan Saenredam Convito in casa Levi

Viewed through three massive Corinthian arches, the scene shows a sprawling banquet set against an idealized classical cityscape. Jesus sits at the center table surrounded by disciples, while the foreground and side arches are filled with servants, soldiers, a dwarf, and dogs. The print translates the grand scale and theatrical composition of Paolo Veronese's 1573 painting into the meticulous detail of Northern engraving.

This work represents the Haarlem Mannerists' project to reproduce the triumphs of the Italian Renaissance for a Northern intellectual audience. It preserves the composition that famously provoked a 1573 Inquisition trial over the artist's inclusion of 'buffoons, drunkards, Germans, dwarfs, and similar scurrilities' in a sacred scene, making it a landmark in the history of artistic freedom.