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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 115%"><strong>Agony in the Garden</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 115%">El Greco’s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 115%">The Agony in the Garden was created early 1590’s. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">The Painting “Agony in the garden” by El Greco’s is simply a painting that portrays the experiences Christ encounters in trying to negotiate between life and Death in the Garden of Gethsemane seeing the suffering and pains to be subjected to.<!--more--></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">The historical context and what distinguishes El Greco’s Painting from other contemporaries, people like Titian and others, was that El Greco’s was able to introduced detains contained in all the four Gospel accounts while his contemporaries’ was just only on a single text of the Gospel account and also the . El Greco’ did his work composition both horizontally and vertically, this work above was specifically horizontal one which gives a vivid illustration of Christ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">The Painting work by El Greco’s were automatically different from others, because what were typical in its era was merely an artistic work that has a single Gospel account and that has a vertical form of composition style which was the dominant artistic work in its era but El Greco’s brought a whole new dimensions and style to painting when he introduces both as a horizontal and as a vertical composition to his work, and also the study of pictures and symbols in “Visual Arts” was prevalent in El Greco’s era too, and when comparing to other people’s work “none of the Gospels, for example, states that the angel bore a chalice i.e. the golden cup held by the angel symbolizes the Passion and refers to an allusion to Christ’s words; ‘O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done’ (Matthew 26:42). Christ, kneeling in prayer in front of a great rock, faces the angel who gives him strength (Luke 22:41, 43). Beneath the angel, seemingly encased in the mist or cloud on which the heavenly messenger kneels, are the sleeping figures of the disciples Peter, James Major, and John (Matt.26:37;Mark 14:33). At the right, in the distance, Judas approaches, leading the guards of the chief priests who will take Christ captive (John 18:3). And the most astonishing risk taking by El Greco’s in his Painting, the most daring is the sense of discontinuous space created by the apparent enclosure of the sleeping disciples within the cloud underneath the angel: the viewer looks through a sort of whirlwind on which the angel is poised and sees Christ’s followers “a stone’s cast” away (Luke 22:41). The swirling oval of mist, which insulates the disciples from the supernatural event that is transpiring, is balanced at the upper right by a fog that is passing over the edge of the rock. The glaring divine light that emanates from above the angel creates unusually brilliant effects on the red robe of Christ; the robe’s sharply faceted planes range in hue from almost white, on his shoulder, to deepest crimson, in the shadows about his left leg” (Page 237, El Greco’s of Toledo, Page 152 of El Greco’s 2003).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%"><span> </span>El Greco’s work Agony in the Garden, was the most successful artistic work in his era with a clear picture, images visible for a self-explanation to the audience and whoever that cares for the work. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">The work of El Greco’s stands out from its peers in the sense that (1). The work was done both as a horizontal and as a vertical composition. (2).The painting is probably the prototype, or at any rates the best Autograph version, of the horizontal type. (3). It draws from all four Gospel accounts. (4). That none of the Gospels, work down by the other artist, for example,<span>  </span>states that the angel bore a chalice but El Greco’s painting did that. (Page 237, El Greco’s of Toledo, Page 152 of El Greco’s 2003). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">El Greco’s work was the best in his era because in its painting pattern he was able to incorporate the four Gospel accounts both as a horizontal and as a vertical composition, and also in its painting still El Greco’s introduce an angel bearing a chalice which is uncommon to other of its contemporaries painting work which makes El Greco’s unique. (Page 237, El Greco’s of Toledo) <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">That El Greco’s painting work is still one of the best and successful artist work which a lot of artist had improve upon due to clarity in the images, the illustration of the four Gospel account on a painting, the visual aspect makes it a stand out and most sort of painting, and most important of all is that it is self-explanation such as an “angel holding a golden cup which symbolizes the Passion and refers to an allusion to Christ’s words; ‘O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done’ (Matthew 26:42)”. (Page 237, El Greco’s of Toledo) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">That a Painting work done in the early 1590’s still outstanding till today and had no rival, that the pictures, symbols, visual art is something remarkable, introduction of the four Gospel account in a painting both as an horizontal and as an vertical composition, showing Christ kneeling and praying, and showing an angel carrying a golden cup and others. And El Greco’s brought whole new dimensions to Painting work to past and the present.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">Works by such painters as Carpaccio, Bassano, Titian and Tintoretto where each compares to each other’s work with El Greco’s painting was on (1) such as the rock behind Christ, (2) the enclosure of the Apostles in a circle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">The Painting in four Gospel Account, the painting in both as an Horizontal and as an Vertical composition, and the angel holding a golden cup which symbolizes the Passion, and refers to an allusion to Christ’s words, Christ kneeling down etc., and importantly the clarity, visual art, symbols, background of the artist and pictures. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">1. (El Greco’s of Toledo, Page 237).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">2. (El Greco’s, Page 152 of 2003).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 200%">3. </span><a href="http://faculty.txwes.edu/csmeller/human-prospect/ProData09/03Biee/BieePICs/5dEurPICs/ElGreco1541/ElGr1595AgGar444.htm">http://faculty.txwes.edu/csmeller/human-prospect/ProData09/03Biee/BieePICs/5dEurPICs/ElGreco1541/ElGr1595AgGar444.htm</a></p>
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