On a ledge-like rocky outcropping, a man kneels and looks up at an angel while, below and closer to us, three people sit or lie near the same man, who is shown twice in this vertical painting. The people have light skin with a greenish cast, though their cheeks are flushed, and they have flat, gold halos around their heads. In both appearances, Jesus has long, wavy, amber-blond hair, a beard, and a long straight nose. He wears a lapis-blue robe under a rose-pink cloak, which are edged in gold. Closest to us, he stands near the lower left corner of the composition, facing our right almost in…
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Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Agony in the Garden [left panel]

Andrea di Vanni (Sienese, c. 1330 - 1413)

1380s

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 47 × 23.8 cm (18 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.) ; overall: 56.7 × 29.3 × 3.3 cm (22 5/16 × 11 9/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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