Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

This painting depicts the biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, when the disguised, resurrected Christ suddenly reveals himself to two astonished disciples as they all sit down to dinner. The artist has painted the figures’ hands and the objects on the table meticulously, but leaves other details vague, including the background drapery, in order to heighten the unfolding drama.

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition

The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).

The Venetian Tradition

Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 19-November 8, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (December 2, 1970-January 9, 1971); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 7-March 21, 1971).

Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism

The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 15-December 14, 1994); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (January 29-April 23, 1995); Museo di Ca' Rezzonico, Venezia VE, Italy (May 25-September 30, 1995).

The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century

Florence, Pitti Palace, 1922: "mostra della pittura italiana del seicento e settecento," cat. no. 750 (catalogue by Roberto Longhi, et. al.).

New ork, Durlacher Brothers, November 19-December 8, 1934: "An Exhibition of Venetian Painting 1600-1800," cat. no. 14.

CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition," cat. no. 162, plate XXXVIII.

San Francisco, May 25-September 9, 1940: "Golden Gate International Exposition," cat. no. 163, repr.

Northampton, mas., Smith College Museum of Art, February 6-February 26, 1947: "Italian Baroque Painting," cat. no. 27.

Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, April 9-May 16, 1948: "Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe during the XVI-XVII Centuries," cat. no. 22.

CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. no. 29.

Balitmore Museum of Art, 1968: "From El Greco to Pollock," cat. no. 38, repr.

Venice, Doge's Palace, June 7-October 15, 1969: "Dal Ricci al Tiepolo, i pittori di figura del settecento a Venezia," cat. no. 58, illus. pp. 138-39, (catalogue by Pietro Zampetti).

The Art Institute of Chicago, September 19, 1970-March 21, 1971: "Painting in Italy in the 18th Century,"

A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts Christ with a light skin tone at a table with two men. Wearing a blue and red robe, Christ gazes upward with eyes wide while holding bread. To our right, an older man with light skin and a gray beard leans forward with palms open. Behind them, a man with medium-light skin looks down. Dramatic light from the left illuminates wine on a white tablecloth against dark shadows.

Giovanni Paolo Baglioni, San Cassiano, Venice, 1787

the family of Castiglioni, San Cassiano, Venice

Italico Brass (Venice, Italy), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931.

The Supper at Emmaus

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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