Christ Taken Prisoner.

Andrea di Bartolo's Christ Taken Prisoner, painted around 1400, depicts the arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane with the dramatic intensity characteristic of Sienese Passion imagery. The scene captures the moment of betrayal as Judas identifies Christ with a kiss while soldiers surge forward. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting. The tension between Gothic grace and Renaissance structure gives art of this period a distinctive energy.

The crowded garden scene is rendered with the emotional expressiveness and decorative color typical of the Sienese school, the agitated figures creating a dynamic composition of betrayal and capture.