Heavenly sky: Giovanni Bellini's The Agony in the Garden

One of the most beautiful skies ever painted puts on a show for Christ as he awaits his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, a moving scene as Easter approaches. Soldiers are approaching across the wide landscape, the disciples are asleep, yet there is hope in that salmon dawn, redemption in the blue above, and beauty, such beauty, in the light catching the white houses of an Italian hilltown Illustration: The National Gallery, London