Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament
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One object, sold whole: M Leuven holds it as S/58/B. 3 sheets, one edition, $289.
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Two theologians helped design this picture. M Leuven records that Bouts was assisted by two men from the new university to build a completely new way of showing the Last Supper — and the new thing is what he chose as the centre. Not the betrayal. The blessing of the bread. Look through the window on the left and you are in fifteenth-century Leuven, watching the town hall go up. Six hundred years on, it still hangs where it was made to hang.
Three columns in a row at one image height, as the altarpiece opens: each wing's two scenes stacked, the Last Supper between; all three 20.0 in tall.
| Held by | M Leuven · S/58/B the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · Dieric Bouts - Altaarstuk van het Heilig Sacrament.jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Panel · left | Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament - Abraham and Melchizedek; the Passover (left wing) — 1,917 × 5,167 px |
| Panel · centre | Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament - The Last Supper (centre) — 4,334 × 5,167 px |
| Panel · right | Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament - The Gathering of the Manna; Elijah in the Desert (right wing) — 1,902 × 5,167 px |
| Chain | Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 3 print masters. |
Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.