The Agony in the Garden
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He prays that the chalice may pass, and the answer arrives in the air before his face: cherubs on a cloud, holding the instruments of his torture and death.
Everything else confirms it. The fig early legend made Judas's gallows has burst through the rock above the sleeping disciples. They lie like toppled marble emperors while Judas brings soldiers down from the city gates, a gilded horseman on his column.
The composition may follow a drawing by his father-in-law Jacopo Bellini, where the kneeling Christ looks up at a chalice. Mantegna's looks up at what the chalice meant.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG1417 object page, 'Overview' and 'In-depth' (accessed 2026-08-16). · The British Museum, drawing; sketch-book, Jacopo Bellini, museum number 1855,0811.43. · Musee du Louvre, 'Mantegna' exhibition microsite (2008), Agony in the Garden section. · The National Gallery, London, 'Mantegna and Bellini', 1 Oct 2018 - 27 Jan 2019.
And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.
Matthew 26:39 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
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