From 5 to 24 February 2019 the Pinacoteca di Brera hosts a new exciting dialogue Supper in Emmaus. Caravaggio meets Rembrandt, which compares two absolute masterpieces of art history: Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus, one of the most significant works of the museum and The Supper at Emmaus, an extraordinary painting by the Dutch master from the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris.
The Supper at Emmaus returns to Milan after being exhibited at the exhibition in Paris Caravage à Rome. Amis et ennemis, at the Musée Jacquemart-André from 21 September 2018 to 28 January 2019. The exchange between the two paintings, the result of an agreement between the two institutions, had seen the painting of Rembrandt temporarily take Caravaggio’s place, while now it will be possible to exceptionally admire them for the first time together in gallery 28 in an unprecedented and spectacular dialogue.
It will therefore be a comparison never seen before, the comparison between two paintings of identical inspiration in the executions of two masters of light.