The Last Supper | Chen Yuandu | 1938 Frame Options:Framed Canvas with muted tones and stark

with muted tones and stark contrasts intensifying the sense of foreboding

Cabanel's meticulous attention to detail

using the severed head of Medusa as a weapon

their faces veiled

whose decapitated bodies lie on the ground while their heads form a macabre circle—symbolizing the infamous “bell” from which the painting takes its name

The Last Supper | Chen Yuandu | 1938 Frame Options:Framed Canvas with muted tones and starkAbout the artwork: Painted in 1938 by Chen Yuandu, The Last Supper reinterprets the iconic Christian scene through a distinctly Chinese lens. Christ and his disciples, portrayed with Asian features and Ming style clothing, sit around a square table in a traditional Chinese interior, with only two loaves and a cup before them. Created within the context of Fu Jen Catholic Universitys mission to sinicize Christian art, the painting blends theological