c. 1602
Caravaggio's
The Taking of Christ
refers to Christ's betrayal by Judas
Iscariot in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper.
Luke 22:47: Jesus asked him, ‘Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?’
In his projection work for St Paul's Cathedral
The Question Mark Inside
the artist Martin Firrell used
text to evoke both the Taking of Christ:
A Kiss
and the
crucification:
A Nail
The Question Mark Inside was commissioned by Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral as the first large-scale
public artwork in the cathedral's history. It marked the 300th anniversary of the topping-out of Sir
Christopher Wren's architectural masterpiece in 2008.
