# The Supper at Emmaus is completed around 1601 as a London National Gallery Caravaggio for the Ciriaco Mattei circle

Date: 1601

## The fact

National Gallery and Britannica date the London Supper at Emmaus to about 1601 for the Mattei circle. Patrons share the commission file. Later National Gallery acquisition is carrier, not the painting act.

It is one event.

## Context

Contarelli and Cerasi chapel works neighbour this Roman peak.

[Caravaggio](/people/caravaggio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Mattei patronage in Rome; second Emmaus versions exist later and are other instruments.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

National Gallery artist page and Britannica independently date the ~1601 Supper at Emmaus.

Official or archival record: National Gallery — Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio; The National Gallery, London).

## Significance

A completed sacred narrative painting is an edu path for visual scripture learning.

## What is established and what is not

Established: ~1601 Emmaus in the gallery/encyclopedia file. Not established: day precision.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not merge with the later Brera Emmaus. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.
Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not merge with the later Brera Emmaus. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-supper-emmaus-1601