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The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane  1614

by El Greco

Christ kneels in the centre; at the upper left an angel appears to him with a cup, a reference to his forthcoming Passion. In the background on the left are the sleeping apostles - Peter, James the Greater and John; on the right Judas approaches with soldiers. [br]The painting is a synthesis of varying accounts of the Agony in the Gospels and is probably a workshop replica...
Size: 
102 x 131 cm
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons