Keywords: Italian - The Last Supper - Walters 71483.jpg Christ and the apostles are gathered around a table framed by buildings and porticoes evocative of Jerusalem Two of the apostles right try to prevent Judas from dipping his hand into the central bowl containing a fish symbol of Christ himself This ivory plaque with an abstract geometric style based on Byzantine models is one of three from a larger ensemble of the Passion cycle perhaps from an altar frontal Two related plaques featuring the Washing of the Feet and the Prayer at the Mount of Olives are in the Museo Civico Bologna ca 1100 Medieval ivory cm 10 7 26 1 1 accession number 71 483 30606 Count Gregoire Stroganoff Grigorii Sergeevich Stroganov Rome prior to 1900 Kurt Cassirer Rome prior to 1925 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Arts of the Middle Ages Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston 1940 place of origin south Italy Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Stroganoff collection of Western art |