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Stanley Spencer, The Last Supper, 1920 ©the estate of Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham Used by permission of Phaidon Press. From Last Supper, new in paperback, published by Phaidon Press, 2007, www.phaidon.com
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"While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples … ." (Matthew 26:26) 20th century English painter Stanley Spencer's vision of the Last Supper takes on an unusually playful tone, as the disciples are lined up almost as dolls, looking on at the moment Jesus breaks the bread. The legs protruding from the table were a later addition to the painting, and mimic the geometric forms popular in European modernist art. The cramped space in which Jesus and his disciples sit is actually a malt house in Cookham, England, Spencer's beloved childhood home.
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