Left: Bystanders witness the last rites Centre (left to right): A woman throws the vomit in the fire; angels bearing incense; a woman removes the consecrated wafer from the hearth. Right: A woman kneels by the chest; the wafer is placed in a monstrance; the procession. These surviving fragments of canvas showing the Miracle of Amsterdam were probably made for the Holy Hearth chapel. Possibly, Jacob was commissioned to paint these scenes for Emperor Charles V’s visit to Amsterdam in 1515. The unusual combination of tempera paint on canvas suggests that the work may have been made in a hurry, and then later kept at the chapel. It was apparently removed when the chapel was despoiled in 1578, and then cut in pieces and hidden.