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The Agony in the Garden
Creator
Pietro NovelliItalian Artist · 1603–1647
All works by this person →Sicily's most important painter of the 1600s, Pietro Novelli trained with his father, a painter and mosaicist, then studied painting and perspective in Palermo. Anthony van Dyck's visit to Sicily in 1624 influenced him for life. Van Dyck's altarpiece,still in the oratory of a Palermo church, encouraged Novelli to lighten his palette, a decision that added a sweetness and elegance to his art. Novel
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- about 1640 ?
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk; remnants of old ruled framing lines in dark brown ink along all four edges
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This drawing illustrates Christ's agony as recounted in the Gospel of Saint Luke: "He himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and began to pray: `Father, if it be thy will, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but thine be done.' And now there appeared to him an angel from heaven bringing him strength, and in anguish of spirit he prayed the more urgently; and his sweat was like clots of blood falling to the ground."
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