The Agony in the Garden

Description

Print, brown frame. 1500s.
Renaissance artwork depicting a devotional scene with three sleeping figures and a praying central figure, set in a serene landscape. Christ prays before his arrest, while his disciples slumber around him. The small angel who proffers a chalice or cup is a visualization of Christ’s thoughts - “let this cup pass from me” - as he slowly accepts his fate. Raphael depicted the scene in a delicate landscape, with each of the sleeping followers in a carefully observed pose.