# The Prayer in the Garden [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 538 x 455 cm ## Commentary Tintoretto has emphasized in the night setting the important moments of this episode from the New Testament by bringing them all together. In the top right in the lonely spot of the garden, Christ, in a red mantle, receives the announcement of his imminent death from the divine messenger. The latter breaks in from the right in a bright reddish halo and his brightness creates reflections on the leaves of the shrubs. The same source of supernatural light highlights the two apostles fast asleep, the third only just awoken and the row of armed soldiers which can be glimpsed on the left. ## Related artworks - [A Philosopher \(detail\)]() - [A Philosopher]() - [Allegory of Faith]() - [Allegory of Fortune \(Felicità\)]() - [Allegory of Generosity]() - [Allegory of Goodness]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Carità]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Marco]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Teodoro]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()