![]() ![]() The figures are arrayed before a very dark background, in which the setting is obscured. ![]() Judas has just kissed Jesus to identify him for the soldiers. They are standing, and only the upper three-quarters of their bodies are depicted. There are seven figures in the painting: from left to right they are John, Jesus, Judas, three soldiers (the one farthest to the right barely visible in the rear), and a man holding a lantern to the scene. Originally commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. The Taking of Christ ( Italian: Presa di Cristo nell'orto or Cattura di Cristo) is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. On loan from the Society of Jesus, Leeson Street., Dublin ![]()
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