The First Sorrowful Mystery is depicted in art by the Danish painter, Carl Bloch. “An Angel Comforting Jesus Before his Arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane” dates from 1873 and is held by ...

where we see the angel flying away as if abandoning the Jews to their fate. In 1938, Chagall starts to use the image of the Jewish Jesus. He could think of no more powerful way to convey his ...

Jesus prays before his baptism and at the time of his transfiguration. At both of those moments, he hears a voice from heaven. Here, again at prayer, an angel comforts him—in a Gospel where ...