Raffaello, orazione nell'orto, da predella della pala colonna, 1504-05

The scene depicts Christ kneeling in prayer, looking toward a small angel in the sky who holds a chalice. Below him, three disciples are shown in deep sleep, slumped against a rocky mound and a slender tree within a quiet landscape. This work is a small predella panel characterized by the soft colors and balanced composition typical of the artist's early period.

As an early work by Raphael, this panel represents the stylistic foundation of an artist who would later become central to the High Renaissance synthesis of Christian theology and Neoplatonic philosophy.