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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Supper at Emmaus
1602

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Colour illustration of a Bible story made by a famous painter several hundred years ago. The Wikipedia page says "Cleopas gesticulates in a perspectively-challenging extension of arms in and out of the frame of reference", which I'm pretty sure is trying to very politely say that Caravaggio got the foreshortening wrong on his hands.
April 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM