Christ´s Agony in the Garden by the Master of the Hohenfurt Altar and the Master of the Wittingau Altar

This work is an introduction to the theme of medieval painting. Besides the artistic point of view, it offers to deal with the matter from a wider angle. It reveals that in depth this issue touches not only art, but also history, theology and culture. It analyzes in detail two paintings of the same iconographic theme, Christ?s agony in the Garden. One of the paintings is by the Master of the Hohenfurt Altar and the other one by the Master of the Wittingau Altar. It intends to show on one hand the influence of the Cistercian spirituality on the painting by the Master of the Hohenfurt Altar and the influence, and on the other the influence of the Augustian Canons on the painting by the Master of the Wittingau Altar. Each chapter is completed by pedagogical suggestions related to the theme at hand. This provides a wide scale of specific activities from which teachers can draw or use them as a source of inspiration for their own preparation