Caravaggio - Supper at Emmaus 1606
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Supper at Emmaus 1606
141x175cm oil/canvas
Palazzo Brera, Milan, Italy
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Palazzo Brera, Milan:
Caravaggio painted the Supper at Emmaus between 1605 and 1606, in other words between the end of his time in Rome and his final flight from the city after being found guilty of murder. He managed to sell it, through the good offices of Ottavio Costi, to Marquis Patrizi and it was still in that aristocratic family’s palazzo in Rome in 1939, when it was purchased for the Pinacoteca by the Associazione Amici di Brera. The depiction of the table with a carpet draped over it is a typical device of Caravaggio’s, found also in the first version of this subject which the artist had tackled earlier in a picture now in the National Gallery in London. Compared to the earlier version, this painting displays a greater intimacy and a plainer palette combined with a dramatic, almost theatrical treatment of light, underscoring the sacred nature of the moment.