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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y: The Supper at Emmaus

🖼 The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1620
Oil on canvas
123.2 × 132.7 cm
New York, United States

Warm candlelight illuminates Christ's face as he breaks bread with two disciples, rendered in Velázquez's masterful chiaroscuro. This intimate moment captures spiritual revelation through naturalistic detail, establishing the artist's revolutionary approach to religious narrative in seventeenth-century Spanish art.

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