A young bearded man, Jesus, kneels and looks up at a winged angel as two groups of sleeping men huddle behind him in this almost square painting. The men all have pale skin, blond or white hair, and gold, disk-like halos. Jesus’s halo has a red cross on it as well, and it hovers over his long copper-colored hair. He wears a terracotta-red cloak over a celestial-blue robe, and he presses his hands together in prayer as he looks sharply up at the winged angel floating in the upper right corner of the composition. Smaller in scale, the angel has white wings and flowing robes, and holds a gold…
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The Agony in the Garden

Benvenuto di Giovanni (Sienese, 1436 - before 1517)

probably 1491

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 42 × 46.7 cm (16 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.) ; overall size: 43.3 × 48 cm (17 1/16 × 18 7/8 in.) ; framed (with four other paintings): 59.69 × 283.21 × 5.4 cm (23 1/2 × 111 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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