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...escape from prison - his palette and his configurations of space became more subdued. His figures begin to flicker and dematerialize. Pagan motifs disappear; religious scenes multiply. Bloodshed and death turn up everywhere. You can grasp his evolution in the distance that separates the 1601 version of The Supper at Emmaus, which belongs to the National Gallery, and a version completed five years later, soon after he fled Rome. Both focus on the moment of Christ's appearance before two astonished disciples on the day of his resurrection. The London Supper is a work of high theater, produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Master | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...service record should be irrelevant if he is a good President and Commander in Chief. But would my company keep me if it found out that I didn't go to the college I said I graduated from but instead only showed up for freshman orientation? Adam A. Brostow Emmaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...service record should be irrelevant if he is a good President and Commander in Chief. But would my company keep me if it found out I didn't go to the college I said I graduated from but instead only showed up for freshman orientation? ADAM A. BROSTOW Emmaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 2004 | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...geez!" groans Linda Oberdorfer, a delicate chocolate-and- almond cookie crumbling in her hands. Oberdorfer, manager of direct sales for magazine publisher Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., is running out of time. She's part of an eight-member sales group that is seconds away from diving into a gourmet meal of its own creation. The group is in the kitchen of the Team Cooking Group, brainchild of New York's Cooking by the Book cooking school and Take Charge Consultants of Downingtown, Pa. They are learning how to deal with limited resources and how to become more cross-functional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Extreme Offsites | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched on the very brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of the Gesture | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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