DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
(b. ca. 1255, Siena, d. 1319, Siena)

Agony in the Garden (detail)

1308-11
Tempera on wood
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

The picture, which depicts events on the Mount of Olives, concentrates several narrative scenes into a single landscape. On the right, in accordance with the Gospel of St Luke, which is the only one to mention an angel appearing, Christ withdraws in prayer.




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