Apr 30 2007
Faith in Art
This week’s image is another Caravaggio. The painting is Supper at Emmaus (See Luke 24:13-35) from 1598. Caravaggio was an against-the-grain type of painter in that he refused to paint his subjects (particularly his religious subjects) using traditional conventions. Here, Christ is shown as a robust, un-haloed, well-fed, beardless young man. Unlike the artist’s Incredulity of St Thomas, in this painting he does not show the resurrected Christ with the marks of crucifixion.
(HT: Malaspina - Lecture on Baroque Art, Russell McNeil, PhD)
