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Supper at Emmaus (1601-2) • Description. • Interpretation of Supper at Emmaus. • Other Famous Paintings by Caravaggio. Artist: Caravaggio (1571-1610) Medium: Oil and tempera on canvas. Genre: History painting illustrating a Biblical story. Movement: Caravaggism. Location: National Gallery, London.
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio(1571-1610) was an Italian painter and pioneer of Baroque painting. He was born in Milan but moved to the town of Caravaggio in 1576 with his family to escape the Plague. Both his father and his grandfather died on the same day in 1577 and his mother died in 1584, just after he began his apprenticeship to the Milane...
Caravaggio’s style is characterized by a highly realistic rendering of the human form, combined with an exaggerated and dramatic use of lighting, known as chiaroscuro. This resulted in highly expressive and moving paintings which depicted a range of scenes full of tension, emotion and movement. Consequently, Caravaggio was very influential in the d...
Caravaggio painted Supper at Emmaus at the height of his career in Rome and it is consequently one of his most dramatic renderings of a religious scene. It depicts a scene from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 24:30-31) in which, on the third day after the Crucifixion, two of Jesus’ disciples come across him on the road to Emmaus but do not recognize him a...
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Until 1 September 2024. Find out more about National Treasures chevron_right. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, 1601. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
141 cm × 196.2 cm (56 in × 77.2 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus 's appearance in Emmaus .
Upon reaching an inn in Emmaus, they invited him to have supper with them thinking that he was just a stranger/acquaintance. At that moment Jesus Christ broke bread and offered thanks and praise to God, the Father, they were instantly reminded of the countless times that Jesus did that before His crucifixion and death.
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Stories. The Supper at Emmaus. Discover Caravaggio's 'The Supper at Emmaus' a National Treasure on loan from the National Gallery, London. In a moment of recognition, two followers of Jesus Christ leap from their seats, scarcely able to believe their eyes.
