The Last Supper

Imagination and Memory By David D. Pearce

The origin of this work is early 2015, when I visited the so-called "Monasteries in the Sky" in the Meteora region of central Greece and saw much spectacular religious iconography. At about the same time, there was an impressive El Greco exhibit in Athens at the Byzantine & Christian Museum. Both elements influenced the painting, an India ink/watercolor rendition of the Last Supper modeled on a composition of Michael Damaskenos, a Cretan icon painter who was a contemporary of El Greco. I completed the painting in Greece during Easter season, an important time of devotion and remembrance throughout the Greek Orthodox world. People greet each other on Easter Sunday by saying "Christos Anesti", which means “Christ is Risen”. The set reply to this in Greek is “Alithos Anesti”, which means, "Truly, He has risen". I had heard the same among Greek Orthodox Christians in Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem, but in Arabic: "Al-Massih Qaam" and the reply "Haqqan, qaam".

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