Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus (1606)
Source of the reproduction
Mazzola (Parmigianino):
Amor makes the bow
Source of the reproduction
25 april 2026
John Bjarne Grover
This file shows the pink stone that I found on the ground outside a school on 31 july 2022. It has quite interesting interpretations in Caravaggio's 'Supper at Emmaus" (1606) (when mirrored - see also this file) and Mazzola's (Parmigianino's) 'Amor makes the bow' (from the 1530's). This emerges even more clearly when compared with my 'Der Dornenstrauch I:123'.
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Caravaggio's artwork annotated by me
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Wo stieg ich ein, wo war mein' linke Hand hier auf das Drein der Tür und deren Klinke? Der schlug sich auf. Ein Mann am Tafel sitzt und wendete sein Haupt nach mir: Sein Lächeln blitzt. Ein dritter Mann bei seiner Seite steht, sein Schatten halb in Wahn, sein Körper umgedreht. |
Where did I enter, where was my left hand here on the 'therein' of the door and its handle? It opened. A man at the table sits and turned his head towards me: His smile flashes. A third man stands beside him, his shadow half in madness/delusion, his body turned around. |
(Translated from german into english by way of Google's translator, with only a few emendations).
I notice Mazzola's 'Klinke'. How big was the stone? Approximately as Caravaggio's Christ shows with his fingers. See, though, this study for a more advanced interpretation of his finger gesture.
Now assume that this (according to this study of mine on the correlation between Horace, my 'Der Dornenstrauch' and chinese radicals, means (by DDS I:123) that the pink marble stone corresponds to chinese Kangxi radical 212 = 龍 = 'dragon', it is interesting to notice that the oldest attested forms of this sign are in the bronze inscription (around 1000 BC plus/minus a couple of centuries) and oracle bone script - and I add thereby also another relevant artwork of Mazzola - a socalled 'self portrait':
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© John Bjarne Grover
On the web 25 april 2026
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