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Agony in the Garden (Bellini)

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Bellini's work marks a noticeable shift from the even illumination and equality in the intensity of the forms, seen in Mantegna's painting, commonplace in fifteenth-century Italian art. While Mantegna's painting is lit by even illumination and clarity of atmosphere, Bellini's painting introduces a
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Bellini blends the natural with the human world, which is highlighted by the figure of Christ: his hands up in prayer over a natural rock formation that takes the form of an altar. Bellini even evokes the details of sound in this silent medium of painting through his depiction of the apostles
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was long-believed to be painted by Mantegna. These two works were inspired by an earlier drawing by Giovanni's father and Mantegna's father-in-law, Jacopo Bellini.
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Until the mid-19th century Early Renaissance paintings were regarded as curiosities by most collectors. This one had probably belonged to
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applied with a liquid medium, which provide the painting with a great complexity in texture especially seen in the tunic of Jesus.
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sense of time and ambiance, as seen in the sky's radiant ilumination of light emanating from the praying Christ.
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in the mid-1470s. This deep appreciation for the Northern Italian countryside finds its way into
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is portrayed reclined with his mouth agape in deep rest, adding realism to the scene.
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Giovanni Bellini is widely recognized as not only one of the foremost artists of
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The picture is closely related to the similar work by Bellini's brother-in-law,
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The Economics of Taste, Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760–1960
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Bellini's painting situates the viewer at a great crossroads in the life of
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Bellini almost exclusively spent the majority of his life in his native
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The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist
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and repurchased by Beckford at the Fonthill Sale the next year (as a
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Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Female Saint
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Painting the Word : Christian Pictures and Their Meanings
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Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula
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The painting was amongst five paintings including Bellini's
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Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist
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Index


Giovanni Bellini
Tempera
National Gallery, London
Agony in the Garden
Renaissance
Giovanni Bellini
tempera
National Gallery, London
Agony in the Garden
Mount of Olives
Peter
James
John
Judas
Andrea Mantegna
Jacopo

Self-Portrait
Quattrocento
Italian Renaissance
Venice
Adriatic coast
suffragette
Grace Marcon
Andrea Mantegna's
same name
National Gallery

egg tempera

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