The Last Supper

Juan de Juanes painted this Last Supper between 1555 and 1562, for the lowest tier of the high altarpiece of San Esteban in Valencia, and he clearly knew Leonardo's version in Milan, with its long table and apostles reacting in clusters. What Christ is raising is the host, at the moment of consecration. Look at the gold cup standing on the table in front of him: Juanes painted it from a specific object, the agate chalice kept in Valencia Cathedral, revered then and now as the actual cup of the Last Supper. Every apostle wears a halo lettered with his name, except one. Judas sits apart at the front in a yellow robe, the colour of envy, clutching his little bag of coins, and his name is written not on a halo but on the bench beneath him.