Noël Bellemare
(Antwerp-Paris, active 1512-1546)
Agony in the Garden (78 x 50 mm.)
France, Paris or Tours, c. 1525-30
This is an extraordinarily sophisticated night scene from the same Book of Hours as the miniature of Job and Satan by the gifted and multi-talented Franco-Flemish artist, Noël Bellemare. Before a night sky, Christ kneels on a grassy mound as a tiny angel appears in the upper right-hand corner of the miniature, the apostles asleep in the foreground, huddled in the night, with the rich colors of their robes muted. Dawn is just rising on the distant horizon, and the stars are still visible in the lightening sky. In the tiniest of detail, hardly visible except under magnification, Judas and the soldiers approach through the gate at the upper left.
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