L’orazione nell’Orto (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520)

L’orazione nell’Orto (The Agony in the Garden)
c.15041505
Oil on wood, 24.1 x 28.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna).

This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the nearby altarpiece, one of three scenes focused on Christ’s last days. Christ prays before his arrest, while his disciples slumber around him. The small angel who proffers a chalice or cup is a visualization of Christ’s thoughts—”let this cup pass from me”—as he slowly accepts his fate. Raphael depicts the scene in a delicate landscape, with each of the sleeping followers in a carefully observed pose. (MET)

The Colonna Altarpiece

Raffaello (1483-1520)
Pala Colonna
c.15041505
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

 

 

Main panel:

Madonna in trono con santi (1504-1505)Raffaello (1483-1520)
Madonna in trono con santi
c.15041505
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

 

 

Predella:

San Francesco d'Assisi (1504-1505)Raffaello (1483-1520)
San Francesco d’Assisi
c.15041505
Dulwich Picture GalleryLondon

 

 

Raffaello (1483-1520)
Processione al Calvario
c.15041505
National GalleryLondon

 

 

Pietà (1504-1505)Raffaello (1483-1520)
Pietà
c.15041505
Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumBoston

 

 

Sant'Antonio da Padova (1504-1505)Raffaello (1483-1520)
Sant’Antonio da Padova
c.15041505
Dulwich Picture GalleryLondon

 

 

Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of the church reserved for the nuns, who may have insisted on its conservative details, such as the elaborately clothed Christ. By contrast, the weighty male saints reflect the progressive style developed by Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo that Raphael had just begun to study in Florence. The lunette above the main panel depicts God the Father holding a globe and delivering a blessing between two angels and two seraphim. (MET)