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SUPPER AT EMMAUS by
Caravaggio
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caravaggio.emmaus.750pix.jpg )
The original painting is in
the National Gallery, London, but Mark F. Lodge painted
a copy of it, using original techniques, and the copy
overlooks Christ Church's nave, hung on the wall of the
gallery room, facing into church.
Mark, the younger son of
former New Mill churchwarden Cyril Lodge, has provided a
commentary on his copy of the painting:
The painting in the church at
New Mill is when Jesus reveals himself to his two
disciples at the supper at Emmaus.
The original
painting is by the artist Caravaggio, painted 1601; it
is oil on canvas and in the National Art Gallery,
London.
I painted the copy when
I was in my first year at Central School of Art, London,
as part of my BA course, painted 1975. I painted it
using the original techniques that Caravaggio would have
used. I made many trips to the National Art
Gallery, to sketch from the original, and during the
course of painting for colours and tones.
When the
sketches were completed the next step was to make a
cartoon to the original size, then make holes in the
cartoon, place it over the canvas and rubbing charcoal
onto the cartoon the image was transferred onto the
canvas.
The painting was then slowly built up in
brown and white paint, then the colour was added in many
glazes, each time, repainting the dark areas in brown,
the light areas in white, then glazing in colour in
transparent layers.
The painting took me approx
3 months to complete, and the tutors were impressed
because of the amount of work involved, learning the old
masters techniques and using them in the painting of the
picture.
I admired the painting by Caravaggio because
he gives real atmosphere to his painting, the feeling of
astonishment from his two disciples believed to be Luke
and Cleophas.
When I finished Art College my
brother Richard had the painting on the wall of his
house in Milton Keynes for a while. When they
moved to Canada my father Cyril Lodge who was a warden
at New Mill church, asked me if they could have the
painting for the church. I agreed and Mr Richardson, and
my dad had the painting fixed where it is now.
The
painting gave me a lot of enjoyment to do, it is now
part of and belongs to New Mill Church.
Mark Francis Lodge
Mark Lodge (pictured in the Alps), who painted our
copy of Supper at Emmaus |
