Episode 260 - Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”

Rebuilding The Renaissance

English - January 10, 2024 11:30 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 202 ratings
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Located in the National Gallery in London, Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus” was painted in 1601 for the influential Cardinal Girolamo Mattei. The painting depicts the episode from the Gospel of Luke where two apostles dine with a traveler and realize to their astonishment that their companion is the resurrected Christ once he breaks bread.