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The Agony in the Garden
c. 1608
Oil on canvas, 170 x 112,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
I choose this painting becuase of El Greco's style. Every painting that Ive seen of his seems to be somewhat dark but also enlighting at the sametime. El Greco had a specific style to him. It was very mystical and emotional. He also had alot of landscape paintings which attracted me to this one. Even though its not a full landscape the way he ties in the grass that Christ is kneeling on and the way the tree branches almost look like they are dead is such a way to capture the viewers attention. El Greco was known for Mannerism to be within his paintings. I see Mannerism in Christ since El Greco liked to enlongate the bodies within his paintings and he liked to make the heads unproportional to the bodies and this painting is an excellent example of that since it was a big theme in Renaissance art in the 16th century.
The Agony in the Garden
c. 1608
Oil on canvas, 170 x 112,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
I choose this painting becuase of El Greco's style. Every painting that Ive seen of his seems to be somewhat dark but also enlighting at the sametime. El Greco had a specific style to him. It was very mystical and emotional. He also had alot of landscape paintings which attracted me to this one. Even though its not a full landscape the way he ties in the grass that Christ is kneeling on and the way the tree branches almost look like they are dead is such a way to capture the viewers attention. El Greco was known for Mannerism to be within his paintings. I see Mannerism in Christ since El Greco liked to enlongate the bodies within his paintings and he liked to make the heads unproportional to the bodies and this painting is an excellent example of that since it was a big theme in Renaissance art in the 16th century.