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Kentucky-based artist Laurie Doctor teaches calligraphy, bookmaking, and painting around the globe. Her works often focus on a theme taken from a text—such as Rainer Maria Rilke’s line “Live the questions” from Letters to a Young Poet or Christian Wiman’s poem “Every Riven Thing.” Her work Write Upon Tablets alludes to the words of Habakkuk 2:2: “Write the vision: make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie.

The many and varied portrayals of the Last Supper continue to attract viewers not only because of the sacramental importance of the event they depict, but because they explore the relationships between Christ and the apostles. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/49–1494) painted his fresco for the dining area of the Dominican monastery of San Marco in Florence. The monks were reminded of the Lord’s Supper while they were eating.