Picture of the Eucharist

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I was searching a site for a picture of the Last Supper and came across a picture entitled “The Disputation Of The Eucharist”. Can someone explain what this means? I am ignorant of the subject.
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Kathy
 
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I was searching a site for a picture of the Last Supper and came across a picture entitled “The Disputation Of The Eucharist”. Can someone explain what this means? I am ignorant of the subject.
Thanks,
Kathy
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It is a painting done by Raphael. It is my favorite painting. When I built my house a few years back I had a home chapel built (faux stained glass and all)…I am going to buy a huge tapestry of this painting and hang it on on of the walls.

The meanig of the painting is The Disputation over the Blessed Sacrament (or more appropriately, The Triumph of Religion), painted by Raphael between 1508 and 1511, represents Christianity’s victory over and the transformation of the multiple philosophical tendencies shown in the School of Athens fresco which is also done by Raphael ad is placed on a opposite wall.
The theologians of the Disputation are not gathered in a vaulted temple like the philosophers of the School. Instead, their bodies make up the Church’s architecture. They form one body, united in an ethereal apse flanking the Trinity and the Eucharist, that when consecrated becomes the body of Christ.
 
Thanks ever so much for your prompt reply. It is indeed a beautiful picture.
Kathy
 
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