| Title: | Christ on Gethsemane with Three Apostles Sleeping |
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| Notes: | Composition by J. Le Breton; glass studio of Gaudin, Paris. “There are situations where the sleeping body that is given to us to see as an image is and remains exterior to us, and elicits only our spectatorial pleasure and our admiration for the artistry of the painter. There are others where the representation of cowardice or of betrayal rouses our pity for its victim and our reprobation for the act itself. But the sleep of the apostles at Gethsemane, not wanting to accompany the Word in his fight to give his word to the very end, could not be for us a foreign event that we would consider with detachment or scandal. It concerns our evasion, our withdrawal, our sleep. We see ourselves sleeping when we should be awake. This sleep has something terrible about it, in that we know it to be and recognize it as our own. " (Chretien, 66) |
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| Date: | 1933 |
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| Artist: | Le Breton, Jacques ; Gaudin, Jean |
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| Building: | Cathédrale d'Amiens
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| Object/Function: | Stained glass |
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| Material: | Glass |
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| City/Town: | Amiens
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | Luke 22:39-46
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| Lectionary links: | BPass
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| General Subject: | Gethsemane
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- France -- Amiens -- Modern period, 1500-
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73D31211
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| Attribution: | Le Breton, Jacques ; Gaudin, Jean. Christ on Gethsemane with Three Apostles Sleeping, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=29386 [retrieved May 25, 2013]. |
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| Record Number: | 29386
Last Updated: 2011-04-13 16:00:01
Record Created: 2003-04-26 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Hand to hand: listening to the work of art |
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| Author: | Chretien, Jean-Louis |
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| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
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| Date: | 2003 |
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