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The Taking of Christ
1602 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
For Holy Thursday
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Christ's hands are laced together low in the dark, and every other hand is grip. Judas presses in with the kiss; an armoured shoulder shoves past. Edmund Santurri reads those laced fingers as a prayerful attitude broken by the onrush of violence. The National Gallery of Ireland says only the moon lights the scene; the lantern raised at the far right it calls an ineffective source, and in the lantern-bearer's face Caravaggio portrayed himself, aged thirty-one, an observer of events. At the far left a man flees with his arm flung up, whom the gallery names Saint John. Santurri notes the lamp lights nothing, except perhaps the painter's own face.
Sources: National Gallery of Ireland, 'The Taking of Christ', L.14702, read 2026-09-24 · Edmund N. Santurri, 'A Caravaggio Meditation', The Cresset (Lent 2013), read 2026-09-24
And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.
Matthew 26:50 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)