Agony in the Garden

Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni's Agony in the Garden at Yale University Art Gallery, painted around 1435, depicts Christ's prayer in Gethsemane before his arrest. Stefano d'Antonio was a minor Florentine painter who maintained conservative devotional traditions in the mid-fifteenth century Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship The work is now in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery.

The nocturnal garden scene depicts the praying Christ with the sleeping apostles below, rendered in a competent Florentine manner with the tempera technique and gold elements standard in devotional panel painting.