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The Supper at Emmaus
1601 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
For Easter
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Christ lifts His hand over the bread, and the two men at the table know Him: one starts up from his chair, one throws out his arms. He has no beard. Charles Scribner reads that through Mark's Gospel, where He appears in another form, so that He can be known only in the breaking of the bread. The National Gallery sees the outflung arms as a cross, and a place left empty at the table for us. Ciriaco Mattei paid Caravaggio 150 scudi for it in January 1602. The fruit basket leans over the table's edge, and its shadow on the cloth, the Gallery says, is a fish.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG172 · The National Gallery, London, audio description of Caravaggio's 'The Supper at Emmaus'. · Charles Scribner III, "'In Alia Effigie': Caravaggio's London Supper at Emmaus," The Art Bulletin 59, no. 3 (1977) · Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, s.v. 'MATTEI, Ciriaco' (Treccani)
And their eyes were opened: and they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight.
Luke 24:31 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)