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Emmaus
(Supper at Emmaus), the room is dark and brooding. Gone is the neat
formal classicism of Raphael and the Mannerist trickery of Carracci, and in its
place is a potent, weighty naturalism, framed by an existential conflict between
light and dark.
Flemish Masters
Amid its huge Italian collection, the academy inherited a small selection of Flem-
ish and Dutch masters, now housed in rooms XXXI through XXXIII. Rubens,
Rembrandt and Van Dyck arrived from the Louvre in 1813 and in 1855 Peter Og-
gioni donated masters of the Antwerp school, Jan de Beer, along with German
artists Herman Rode and Hans Memling. Seen in the context of all that has gone
before, the cross-pollination from the Renaissance is particularly noticeable.
