- Biography The Last Supper - Born in 1831 in Voronezh - Entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1850 - Painted "The Last Supper" in 1861 - Created a series of...
- It should be noted that of the five masterpieces above, only Nikolai Ge’s correctly reflected the ritual of the Last Supper: Passover, the exodus of Jews from Egyptian...
- Artwork. Artist: Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge (1831 - 1894).
- Nikolai Ge: 1831 C 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894) was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs.
- The Last Supper is a painting by the Ukrainian painter Mykola Ge (1831-1894), completed in 1863.
- In 1861 Ge painted The Last Supper; in 1863 he took the painting with him to Saint Petersburg.
- To conservative critics, this gave reason to say that Ge makes of Herzen the Messiah, and instead of the Last Supper depicted some kind of “split in the nihilists.”
- Nikolai Ge breaks the traditional canons governing the representation of the Last Supper in his painting.
- image. The Last Supper, 1863. Nikolai Ge, 1831-1894.