THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS, 1606
A subdued vision of Christ's resurrection
Nobody disputes Caravaggio's immense achievement. Yet it's hard not to wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived into old age say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls and knife fights. In May 1606, when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter....
