While We Are Away From Palm Sunday Mass ~ Duccio's Jesus' Entry Into Jerusalem

Duccio's Agony in the Garden

Here is Duccio's painting of Jesus' Agony in the Garden, one of the twenty-six Passion Account scenes from his early Renaissance, Maesta altarpiece. You can click on the image to hear a teaching-meditation in the Lenten time.

Christ Before Annas the High Priest and Peter's Denial

This painting by Duccio de Buoninsegna is one of twenty-six images the artist created for the back of the Maesta altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena at the start of the 14th century. Click on the image to hear a teaching about the two Gospel scenes Duccio has creatively combined into one. The account is found  in St. John's Gospel 18:12-27.

You can scroll back over the past couple of weeks to hear reflections on Duccio's Farewell to His Disciples and Jesus Washing the Feet of His Disciples.

Duccio's Jesus Washing the Feet of the Apostles

Here is another meditation or teaching using Duccio's painting of Jesus Washing the Feet of the Apostles. We might also want to look again at St. John's Gospel, Chapter 13. 

"What the Word does for our ears, the icon does for our eyes." 

Duccio's Christ In His Farewell Teaching ~ Some Thoughts

Click on Duccio's painting of Christ in His Farewell Discourse to the Apostles for some shared thoughts - about 11 minutes. I might suggest opening the painting to a full screen.