The Agony In The Garden by Andrea Mantegna Print Picture 1947 #07

Description: The Agony In The Garden by Andrea Mantegna Vintage Print 1947A colour print from a disbound art book from 1947. The reverse side has unrelated text. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 8.125" x 8.375" or 20.5 cm x 16 cm printed on semi gloss paper and one side mounted to normal paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 8.75" x 11.5" This is a vintage print from 1947 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. ANDREA MANTEGNA The Agony in the Garden London: National Gallery (No. 1417) 'And he came out and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him ... And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and kneeled down and prayed. . . And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. . . and when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. . . . And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them. . . . '—Luke 22. The central figure in this supremely great and intensely imagined picture is a sombre silhouette against a miraculously painted distant city. The low sun casts a pale light from the left on the mountain peak above the city, and, within the city on houses, towers, an amphitheatre and a gold equéstnan statue on a column; below the city walls the light strikes on Judas and the advancing multitude. In the foreground storks and rabbits and a cormorant on a withered tree represent unconscious nature; and, there, unconscious also for the moment, are the disciples sleeping 'for their eyes were heavy'. - There are few paintings of this subject in the National Gallery and they are all Italian (if we except the tiny version in the mirror frame of Van Eyck's Jan Arnolfini and his Wft.' Mantegna's picture has often been compared with The Agony in the Garden (No. 726) by an unknown painter presumed by Sir Joshua Reynolds to have been Mantegna and now generally presumed to have been Giovanni Bellini; modern students will also inevitably compare it with the tremendous baroque drama (No. 3476) imaged by El Greco who was concerned to symbolize the actual agony which Mantegna and the other Renaissance humanists had not attempted in their pictures. From both comparisons, Mantegna, in my judgment, holds his own; and he triumphs still more evidently, of course, if we compare his masterpiece on the one hand with the nevertheless engagingly simple concept by his contemporary Niccolô da Foligno (No. 1107) and on the other, with what Carlyle called 'the Corregiosity of Corregio' (No. 76), the wholly theatrical concept of the version ascribed to Garofalo (No. 642), and the soft prettiness of the Umbrian picture ascribed to Lo Spagna where the painter's chief delight has been the painting of the garden's flowers. Both Mantegna's picture and the version of the subject ascribed to Giovanni Bellini are believed to have been based to some extent on a drawing by Jacopo Bellini in a sketch book now owned by the British Museum.

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Location: Dereham

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