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Supper at Emmaus

In The Supper at Emmaus, you can see the plump, partially femine-looking Christ sitting alongside two of his apostles. This supper happens after Christ has been resurrected and the only way that the two apostles actually know that this is the true Christ is by the way he blesses and breaks the bread for the dinner meal. This painting is a vast exaggeration of things being out of proportion. One of the largest examples I've seen out of many paintings is the man's face on the right end of the table. This man has a very large forehead and nose that seems to nearly mold into the mouth of the his face. I don't know if this man is just ugly or unproportional, but either way, he just don't look right. This painting, like the Calling of St. Matthew, has a mysterious light of God entering, this time, from the left of the painting to cast a heavenly light upon the Biblical scene. Works Cited