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Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane

Italy, 1544-1628
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
Museum purchase, 54.2

The Spencer collection does not include any major examples of High Renaissance painting from central Italy or early Renaissance art from Venice. However, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane by Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane, represents High Renaissance painting in Venice and at the same time refers to contemporary sculpture in Florence. In addition to copying ancient objects, Renaissance artists copied other artists, especially those as famous as Michelangelo. The figures of the disciples in the foreground of the painting are imitative of marble figures by Michelangelo in the Medici Chapel in Florence.