Agony in the Garden
Artist
Francesco Bassano
(Italian, 1549 - 1592)
Former attribution
Jacopo Bassano
(Italian, 1510 - 1592)
Depicted
Jesus
(Palestinian, -4 – 33)
Depicted
Apostle Peter
(Ancient Israel, died 64)
Depicted
Apostle James
(Palestine, 5 BC - 44 AD)
Depicted
Apostle John
(Ancient Israel, 11 – 99)
Depicted
Garden of Gethsemane
Dateca. 1582-84
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions104 x 51 in. (264.2 x 129.5 cm)
Frame: 112 3/8 x 60 1/16 x 2 5/8 in. (285.5 x 152.5 x 6.7 cm)
Frame: 112 3/8 x 60 1/16 x 2 5/8 in. (285.5 x 152.5 x 6.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN89
Francesco Bassano was a son of Jacopo Bassano, the founder of a family workshop of painters based outside Venice specializing in religious works. This painting was one of a series of nine commissioned for a church in Brescia. The scene depicted here is described in the Gospels, and takes place after the Last Supper, in the Garden of Gethsemane. Christ asked Peter, James and John to keep watch with him while he awaited his arrest. As Christ prayed to his father "that the cup should pass from me"—a reference to his impending sacrifice—his apostles fell asleep.
On View
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Bibliography- Museum of Art, Gallery 06, Wall North
Averoldo 1700, pp. 85–87; Brognoli 1826, p. 203; Ridolfi 1914, p. 379; Suida 1949, p. 89; Berenson 1957, vol. 1, ill. 1226; Boselli 1957–58, pp. 208–11; Arslan 1960, pp. 195–96; Fredericksen and Zeri 1972, pp. 18, 636; Tomory 1976, p. 77; Fort Worth 1993b, pp. 160–62.
