Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

710. 15 prayers to the wounds of Christ, fol. 360v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 360v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Christ: In Gethsemane―Christ, with a rayed nimbus, kneels on a hill below an arc of heaven and extends His joined hands upward. Below, three nimbed apostles sleep.
In the background at the right, soldiers approach, entering a gate. Some of them carry torches or spears (Christ: Betrayal, Arrival in Garden).
The scene is framed by a decorated border. A statue of a male figure in an illusionistic architectural niche is in the left border. In the lower border, PATER NOSTER is inscribed in display script.