Het Laatste Avondmaal met de stichter

Jan van Dornicke's Het Laatste Avondmaal met de stichter (The Last Supper with the Founder), painted around 1519 and now at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, is a Last Supper panel that includes a donor portrait — the commissioning individual depicted in the sacred scene in a devotional act of perpetual participation. The Last Supper, showing Christ's final meal with his disciples at which he instituted the Eucharist, was among the most theologically charged subjects in Christian art. Van Dornicke, an Antwerp painter of the generation following Quentin Matsys, brings the northern tradition of precise naturalism and rich interior detail to this large-format devotional composition.

The Last Supper requires organizing thirteen figures around a table, a compositional challenge addressed through the Flemish tradition of domestic interior settings that makes the sacred scene accessible and immediate. The donor figure is incorporated at the margins in devotional posture, physically present in the sacred narrative.