Way to Emmaus

Bartolomeo di Tommaso's Way to Emmaus, painted around 1440 for the Minneapolis Institute of Art, depicts the resurrected Christ appearing to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The narrative allowed Bartolomeo to combine landscape and figure painting in a scene of quiet theological drama Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship The work is now in the collection of Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The three figures walk through a landscape rendered with the simplified forms and vivid color characteristic of Umbrian painting, the roadside setting painted with Bartolomeo's energetic, somewhat provincial approach to spatial construction.