Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio

Question 1

When was Supper at Emmaus painted?

Answer 1

1601

Question 2

Where does the ‘Caravaggio’ part of Michelangelo Merisis name come from?

What is this called?

Answer 2

Town of his birth

Nom de plume

Question 3

Things Caravaggio is known for:

Answer 3

• radical optimisation paintings into a mannerist style.

- roguish behaviour and disdain for rule of law.

Question 4

What age with Caravaggio move to one and why?

Answer 4

21
Persuade career as artist.
Rome most culturally important capital in Europe at the time.

Question 5

What happened to Caravaggio that would have positively affected his whole career?

What stylistic characteristic did he develop during this time?

Answer 5

Picked up by cardinal to be in-house artists.

Striking light on and quasi-cinematic mis-en-scene.

Question 6

Why did Caravaggio have to flee Rome?

When did he die and how?

Answer 6

Stabbed a man to death, perhaps over a tennis match?

39, Malaria whilst on run from Knights of Malta

Question 7

What trope does Caravaggio inspire?

Answer 7

Wild, uncaring, whimsical artists.

Question 8

What story does Supper at Emmaus depict?

Answer 8

• from gospel of Luke
• Jesus accompanies two travellers to Emmaus in Israel. For meal after resurrection.
• he reveals true identity and disappears
• pilgrims bewildered (scallop shell, symbol of protection for religious travellers)

Question 9

Two shocking and novel things about The Supper at Emmaus

Answer 9

• beardless Jesus

- use of normal, working people as models for the travellers