He sits in the middle.
Bible in art · Luke
Supper at Emmaus (Ms. 101, fol. 87, from the Illustrated Vita Christi, with devotional supplements)
Unknown English painter · about 1190–1200
Getty Center, Los Angeles
One of the English paintings of about 1190–1200, perhaps from York, later bound into a picture life of Christ made in East Anglia about 1480–1490.
Jesus sits at the middle of a table under a blue arch, between two travellers in round pilgrim hats who lean towards him. Gold cups and round loaves stand on the white cloth, and their bare feet show beneath it.
From the text
- He took bread, blessed and broke it (Luke 24:30)
- Their eyes were opened (Luke 24:31)
The artist’s own
- The two travellers in pilgrims’ hats
- Gold cups on the table
Details
Jesus
Pilgrim
A traveller in a round hat.
Pilgrim
The second traveller.
The table
Cups and bread on a white cloth.
Unknown illuminator, English (perhaps York). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 101 (2008.3), fol. 87) · Tempera colors and gold leaf, on parchment · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)