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3 · Gethsemane
Article · Art
The angel is not consoling. The angel is delivering the cup that was asked to be removed.
An angel rides a cloud with a cup. A rock folds like a womb around three sleeping disciples. In the corner, torches approach. El Greco paints the whole night at once.
Article · Art
The angel's hand rests on the shoulder. The cup is not removed. The hand stays anyway.
An angel arrives. The cup does not go away. Rembrandt's small Gethsemane etching paints the kind of help that accompanies rather than rescues.
Article · Places
An olive press at the foot of a hill — Gethsemane.
A patch of ground at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed before his arrest. Read Mark 14:32 — and notice that some of the olive trees have been radiocarbon-dated past 900 years.