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Betrayal with a Kiss
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Fra Angelico
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A hand-painted oil on canvas reproduction of Betrayal with a Kiss by Fra Angelico, matching the original palette and quiet, measured composition.
Description
Description
In the early 1440s, working within the Dominican community at San Marco in Florence, Fra Angelico turned to one of the most sorrowful episodes of the Passion narrative: the moment Judas identifies Christ to the arresting soldiers with a kiss. The friar-painter, trained as an illuminator before he became one of the defining religious painters of the early Renaissance, approached the subject not as spectacle but as meditation, suited to the contemplative life of the brothers who would have seen it daily.
About Betrayal with a Kiss
The composition is built on contained, deliberate movement. Figures cluster tightly around the central exchange between Christ and Judas, while lances and torches rise at angles that pull the eye upward and outward from that fixed point, giving the crowded scene a current of tension rather than confusion. Angelico organises the drama through colour as much as through gesture: the deep blues and muted reds of the disciples surroundings contrast with the harder, cooler tones worn by the soldiers, marking a moral distinction as clearly as a physical one.
Light falls evenly across the scene, characteristic of the artist preference for clarity over dramatic shadow, so that no face is obscured and every expression, from resignation to malice, remains legible. The modelling is soft, the outlines firm, and the surface handling reflects a painter still close to the discipline of manuscript work, where precision of line mattered as much as breadth of colour. This restraint, paired with the emotional weight of the subject, places the panel firmly within the artist mature output made for the community at San Marco.
The hand-painted reproduction
Each hand-painted oil on canvas reproduction is built by a trained painter working directly from the original composition, matching the tonal relationships between the figures and the measured rhythm of the drapery and lances. This is not a printed image but an oil painting reproduction worked layer by layer, so the brushwork, the raised texture of impasto, and the subtle variation in surface catch light the way an oil painting does. What carries across is not only the palette but the pacing of the original: the calm insistence with which Angelico directs the eye toward the central figures, preserved here in an oil on canvas reproduction rather than a flat facsimile.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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