# The Eucharist Adored by the Four Evangelists [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALMA GIOVANE]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The paintings in the old sacristy of the church, completed by Palma Giovane in May 1581, concentrate on the double aspect of the eucharistic mystery as defined by the Council of Trent: the sacrifice of the mass and of the sacrament. As a counter to ignorance and doubt, the paintings trace an illustrious history from the Old Testament, with episodes symbolically foretelling the eucharistic mystery in the Jewish Passover and the Crossing of the Red Sea, to the Gospels. The cycle revolves around the centre of the ceiling where the Eucharist is presented: a ciborium supported by four columns stands over an altar with the host in a monstrance in the form of the sun, surrounded by the four Evangelists. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\)]() - [Amusements of the Prodigal Son]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(1\)]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(2\)]() - [Apostles at the Virgin's Tomb]() - [David and Achimelech]() - [Doge Francesco Venier Presents the Subject Cities to Venice]() - [Doge Pietro Loredan Beseeching the Virgin]() - [Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Paolo Veronese]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi \(detail\)]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()