Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, an iconic masterpiece at the Pinacoteca di Brera

Among the Brera Pinacoteca’s iconic masterpieces, the Supper at Emmaus was made by the great Lombard painter in one of the most tormented moments of his restless existence. It tackles a subject that Caravaggio had already treated in a painting a few years earlier. The restless and over-the-top character of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610), led him to have numerous verbal altercations during his troubled existence, sometimes followed by quarrels. One of these...

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Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, an iconic masterpiece at the Pinacoteca di Brera

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