After Luther's objections to large public religious images had started to fade, Lucas Cranach the Elder, along with his son and workshop began to work on several altarpieces of the Last Supper, among other subjects.

The altarpiece of the main church in Martin Luther's home of Wittenberg has a traditional representation of the Last Supper in the main panel, except that the apostle having a drink poured is a portrait of Luther, and the server may be one of Cranach.

Other panels show the Protestant theologians Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Bugenhagen, pastor of the church, though not in biblical scenes.

[1][2] Another work, the Altarpiece of the Reformers in Dessau, by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1565) shows all the apostles except Judas as Protestant churchmen or nobility, and it is now the younger Cranach shown as the cupbearer.

However such works are rare, and Protestant paintings soon reverted to more traditional depictions.