Example sentences for: tintoretto

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  • Local master artist Tintoretto (1518–1594) won a competition to create for the hall some 50 paintings (the largest collection of his work anywhere) over a period of 23 years, a series comparable in grandeur to Giotto’s frescoes in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel or Florence’s Brancacci chapel by Masaccio.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • Look out for Veronese’s Rape of Europa and Tintoretto’s Bacchus and Ariadne and Vulcan’s Forge in the Anticollegio; a masterly allegorical series by Veronese glorifying Venice in the Sala del Collegio, where foreign ambassadors were received; and weapons and suits of armor in the Armory (Sala d’Armi).

  • Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (see page 131); Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its “buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans, and similar vulgarities”; Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St. Mark.

  • Among the highlights: two paintings by Giovanni Bellini of the Madonna and Child and a highly personal Pietà; Veronese’s Jesus in the Garden; Tintoretto’s dramatic Discovery of St. Mark’s Body; and an impressive Christ at the Column by Donato Bramante.


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