The Agony in the Garden by Giulio Cesare Procaccini is the first painting on the left

The Agony in the Garden by Giulio Cesare Procaccini is the first painting on the left Travel photography Family-friendly: true

1616-1620. Oil on unlined canvas, 216 x 147 cm.

In the Garden of Gethsemane an angel comforts Christ before his crucifixion, while the three Apostles slumber nearby. Procaccini was the most renowned member of a Bolognese family of artists which had settled in Milan. His work reflects a heightened, dramatic religious sensibility with large figures located close the picture plane, as in this example in which Christ's troubled face contrasts with the angel's serenity.