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...head of a bearded man to Manhattan's Silberman Galleries. There Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and top U. S. authority on Dutch painting, promptly identified it as a Rembrandt, a study for the head of Christ in The Supper at Emmaus, one of the Louvre's masterpieces...
...nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders who know their Vermeer it had as much novelty as if it were dated 1938, for a year ago it was not known to exist...
...Vermeer are the stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like to look at works of art in absolute silence, complained that the parquet flooring in the room where Christ at Emmaus is hung was noisy. Carpets were immediately provided and religious silence prevailed...
...Journey to Emmaus is carved on the front face of the capital to the left of the Madonna and Child statue. Christ is here seen holding the Resurrection Cross as he meets the two disciples who carry pilgrim's staffs. The Resurrection Cross has been badly damaged. Above on either side hover angels of extraordinary beauty. The one to the left rises from a foliage design on the left face, and the one on the right from the walls of a village, perhaps Emmaus, depicted on the right face of the capital. Three windows are in the wall of Emmaus...
MORNING PRAYER. "Jesus and the disciples at Emmaus." Rev. Albert Parker Fitch. Appleton Chapel...