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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