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A prominent Danish art critic, Karl Madsen, stated that Bloch reached higher toward the great heaven of art than all other Danish art up to that date. Madsen also said "If there is an Elysium, where the giant, rich, warm and noble artist souls meet, there Carl Bloch will sit among the noblest of them all!". [2]
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In Agony in the Garden, Jesus prays in the garden after the Last Supper while the disciples sleep and Judas leads the mob, by Andrea Mantegna c. 1460.. In Roman Catholic tradition, the Agony in the Garden is the first Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary [8] and the First Station of the Scriptural Way of the Cross (second station in the Philippine version).
The work illustrates a passage from the Gospel of Luke which describes Christ's turmoil in the Garden of Gethsemane before his arrest and Crucifixion following Judas's betrayal. [1] In Blake's painting a brilliantly coloured and majestic angel breaks through the surrounding darkness and descends from a cloud to aid and physically support Jesus ...
In this painting, Jesus Christ is accompanied by three apostles: Peter, John and James the Greater. After praying three times to God on Mount Gethsemane, Jesus receives, from three angels, the chalice and the symbols of the Passion of Christ. In the background, Roman soldiers are shown with Judas leading them to Christ. [3]
An angel appears to Christ in the left foreground, holding a chalice in his hand. In the right-hand background, Judas and a group of soldiers approach to arrest Christ, marching through a dry landscape without vegetation. The painting is named after the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, which was an event in Jesus' life leading up to his ...
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The painting owes an obvious debt to Wilhelm Marstrand's Italian Osteria Scene, Girl welcoming a Person entering from 1847 Carl Bloch was a personal friend of Moritz G. Melchior. He often visited the Melchior family for dinner on Thursdays in their home on the second floor at Højbro Plads 21 .