# Christ Taken Prisoner [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CESARI, Giuseppe]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on walnut panel, 89 x 62 cm ## Commentary Christ Taken Prisoner c. 1597 Oil on walnut panel, 89 x 62 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel Christ Taken Prisoner is one of Cesari's most important works, its popularity attested by the existence of a somewhat smaller version in the Galleria Borghese and of numerous copies. Cesari bathes the scene in a pale moonlight that gives the colours an almost metallic coolness. His rendering of the form of the moon, and of the stars shining with varying degrees of brightness, testifies to a growing interest in the realistic representation of the night sky. The picture must have been painted in Rome in 1596/97, when Cesari was working on one of his most important commissions, the fresco cycle for the Palazzo dei Conservatori. ## Related artworks - [Battle of Tullius Hostilius against the Veii]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Diana and Actaeon \(detail\)]() - [Diana and Actaeon]() - [Judith with the Head of Holofernes]() - [Lamentation]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and Anne]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts. Peter and Paul]() - [Passion scenes]() - [Perseus Rescuing Andromeda]() - [Portrait of a Pope]() - [Portrait of Prospero Farinaccio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()