Single Leaf with Scenes from the Last Supper
c.1525–30
Medium
tempera with liquid gold and silver on vellum, mounted on old wood board
Dimensions
17 × 12.5 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Bruce Ferrini, Pamela Ferrini, associates, and friends in memory of Matthew Ferrini
Accession Number
2002.52
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Born either in Ghent or Antwerp in 1483, Simon Bening became one of the most famous manuscript painters of the 1500s. He was the son of the miniaturist Alexander Bening. His long career in Bruges, where he worked from 1508 until 1555, was distinguished by a series of major commissions for celebrated families. This illuminated leaf, one of 11 preserved from the now lost parent manuscript, was painted for a member of the important Spanish family of Enriquez de Ribera, whose coat of arms appears at...