1606
oil
canvas
From the collection of Pinacoteca di Brera
Dominant colour
Supper at Emmaus is a 1606 oil by Caravaggio, a Baroque work, depicting Jesus Christ, held at Pinacoteca di Brera.
This painting shows a group of people gathered around a table. The table is set with a white cloth, plates, and food. The people are dressed in old-fashioned clothing, with the person on the right wearing a white head covering. The person in the center is breaking bread, and the others are watching him. The scene is lit from the left side, with the light casting shadows on the faces and clothing of the people. The painting is done in a style that emphasizes contrasts between light and dark, which adds to the sense of drama and emotion. If you're interested in learning more about the artist who created this painting, you might want to look up Caravaggio.
Supper at Emmaus (1606) is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, housed in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus.
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The painting depicts the moment when the resurrected but incognito Jesus (in the Gospel of Mark 16:12, Jesus is said to have appeared to them "in another form") reveals himself to two of his disciples (presumed to be Luke and Cleopas) in the town of Emmaus, only to soon vanish from their sight (Gospel of Luke 24: 30–31). Some details—the ear of the disciple on the right, the right hand of the innkeeper's wife—remain badly drawn, but there is a fluidity in the handling of the paint which was to increase in Caravaggio's post-Roman work as his brushwork became increasingly calligraphic. The…
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The painting was in the collection of Marchese Patrizi by 1624, and possibly commissioned by him. References by Caravaggio's early biographers Giulio Mancini and Giovanni Bellori suggest it was painted in the few months after May 1606 when the artist was in hiding on the estates of Prince Marzio Colonna as a fugitive from the law after killing a local thug, Ranuccio Tomassoni, during a tennis match. However, it may also have been painted in Rome earlier in the year—the innkeeper's wife seems to be the same as the model for Saint Anne in Madonna and Child with St. Anne of 1605. However, given…
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
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