This painting depicts the biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, when the disguised, resurrected Christ suddenly reveals himself to two astonished disciples as they all sit down to dinner. The artist ...

It was only during a restoration in 1933 that the back left corner of the painting was cleaned and another scene revealed: Supper at Emmaus, a biblical scene in which Christ, in disguise, asks for ...

First, Diego Velázquez’s painting The Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus can prompt reflection on the story’s themes of seeing and not seeing. The scene of Jesus and the disciples sits in the ...

VELÁZQUEZ’s Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus, painted in Seville in about 1618, is one picture but two images, radically different in subject, style, and scale.Each is completely legible in its ...