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The first image is not The Last Supper, however.
It is "Supper at Emmaus" by J. Bassano
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
Ah, google image search, you done me wrong!
Oh well.
I think it's a serendipitous juxtaposition, though; we don't usually think of the Lord's Supper as preparing for Emmaus, but there's a sense in which it obviously is.
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