# The Supper at Emmaus, in Baroque and Rococo

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta painted this in about 1720, aged about 33. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1720
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 133.4 x 167 x 9.5 cm (52 1/2 x 65 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 108 x 140.6 cm (42 1/2 x 55 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931.245
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-piazzetta), Italian, 1682–1754

2 works in the collection.

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