Jesus breaks the bread in his hands.
Bible in art · Luke
Christ in Emmaus
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1510
The Met, New York
This small woodcut of the Small Passion, cut about 1510, shows the evening meal at Emmaus.
Jesus sits at the head of a little table under an arch and breaks the bread, and light bursts out around him. The two travellers sit at either side, one in a broad traveller’s hat; a plate, a beaker and a knife lie on the cloth.
From the text
- Evening at the village (Luke 24:29)
- At the table he took bread and broke it (Luke 24:30)
The artist’s own
- The travellers dressed as pilgrims of Dürer’s day, with a broad hat
- A burst of light at the moment they know him
- A third man peering in at the left — the innkeeper, perhaps
Details
The bread
Light
Rays burst out round his head and fill the arch.
The traveller
One traveller wears a broad hat.
On the table
A plate, a glass beaker and a knife.
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919; acc. 19.73.202) · Woodcut · Public Domain — The Met Open Access (CC0). The Met Collection API record: "isPublicDomain": true; The Met marks such works on its website "with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon".