Praying for a Cup
c. 1500 Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
About this artwork
This painting depicts Christ kneeling in prayer on a rock, with his disciples Peter, James, and John sleeping in the foreground. In the background, Judas Iscariot leads Roman soldiers to arrest Jesus, set against a detailed landscape with a fortified city.
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Pietro Perugino was a leading painter of the Umbrian school and a significant figure of the High Renaissance, famously teaching Raphael. This poignant scene, known as the Agony in the Garden, captures Christ's profound human anguish and divine resolve just before his crucifixion. Perugino's serene and balanced compositions were highly sought after throughout Italy.
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Praying for a Cup
Pietro Perugino, c. 1500
