The Supper at Emmaus
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They walked with him for hours and did not know him; Mark says he appeared in another form. So Caravaggio gives him no beard and no marks — nothing you could recognise by looking. The knowing comes only at the breaking of the bread.
Painted for Ciriaco Mattei, who paid 150 scudi in January 1602. The arms fly out into a cross. The fruit basket teeters off the table edge into your room, its apples already blemished. The fourth place is empty, and it is yours.
The shadow that basket throws 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), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 11,412 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.