1831, Voronezh - 1894, Ivanovskoe (Chernihiv Province)
Christ and the Disciples Entering the Garden of Gethsemane
1889
- Period Late 19th century
- CategoryBiblical Subject
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Nikolai Ge painted mostly Gospel subjects in the final years of his career in art. His cycle of works dedicated to the life of Jesus Christ is one of the finest achievements of both his own life and the Russian Realist painting of the 1880s and early 1890s. Work on Christ and the Disciples Entering the Garden of Gethsemane coincided with a period of close contacts with Leo Tolstoy, who greatly influenced the artist’s own ethical viewpoints. Like Tolstoy, Ge presents himself and the viewer with a moral dilemma in this work. The unusual colour scheme is deliberately intended to bring out the emotional aspects of the theme the figures of Christ and the disciples are immersed in darkness and virtually indiscernible.
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