The Last Supper 1999 - 2009 |
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| On Friday 8 May 2009 The Last Supper was destroyed in a fire at Langside Parish Church. Measuring some 14ft / 4.26m in length, it was completed in 1999 and had just celebrated its10th anniversary. The photographs below also show the extent of the damage to the church. |
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| Barely seven feet away on the interior side of this wall, it is clear that the painting has no chance of survival as the fire starts to take hold. Sadly the fire has also destroyed a bas-relief installation by Simon Laurie RSW RGI, a beautiful textile lectern fall by Deirdre Nelson/Joanie Jack and several windows by Gordon Webster, one of the most sought after stained glass artists of the 20th century. |
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The charred timber partition at the lower left, exactly where the demolition men are looking, is where the Last Supper was sited.
Nothing is left of the painting and it now passes into the realm of legend and remains world famous throughout the whole of Langside! :-) |
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| The Last Supper. How it came to be... | |||||||||||||||
| The Last Supper was commissioned by Langside Parish Church in Glasgow, Scotland as part of an ongoing project to install quality art through out the new church building, both inside and out. The painting was sited above the rear doors in the sanctuary and depicts the scene in a space that could have actually existed (see drawings below). | |||||||||||||||
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The Last Supper, an oil painting on five canvas panels measured 4.26 metres long by 2.4 metres high. It was painted over a sixteen month period between January 1998 and April 1999. | ||||||||||||||
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| Above: A study using water colour and collaging photographs of friends and collegues. The three windows at the rear are clearly seen on the reworked architects drawings to the left.
Left: The architects drawings have been altered to show how the space behind the back wall and above the doors leading into the sanctuary could have been turned into the room portrayed in the painting. |
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