Agony in the Garden (Bellini)
- Agony in the Garden (Bellini)
Infobox Painting|
title=The Agony in the Garden
artist=Giovanni Bellini
year=c. 1459-1465
type=Tempera on panel
height=81
width=127
museum=National Gallery, LondonThe "Agony in the Garden" is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1459. It is on display in the National Gallery, London.
It portrays Christ kneeling on the Mount of Olives in prayer, with his disciples Peter, James and St. John sleeping near to him.
The picture is closely related to the similar work by Bellini's kinsman, Andrea Mantegna, also in the National Gallery. It is likely that both derived from a drawing by Bellini's father, Jacopo [ [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng726 National Gallery website] ] . In Bellini's version, the treatment of dawn light has a more important role in donating the scene a quasi-unearthly atmosphere.
References
*cite book|last=Ballarin|first=A.|chapter=Bellini|title=Diccionario Larousse de la pintura|publisher=Planeta-De Agostini|year=1987|id=ISBN 84-395-0649-Xit is a brilliant painting especially the sunrise
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* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng726 Official website page]
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