Example sentences for: tintoretto

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  • The top-floor Capitoline Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Capitolina) has important Venetian works by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Lotto, and Veronese, as well as a fine Rubens Romulus and Remus and Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist.

  • Others have been heavily restored or replaced, not with true mosaics, but with reproductions in colored stone of drawings by such artists as Bellini, Mantegna, and Tintoretto.

  • Tintoretto’s masterpiece in chiaroscuro effects is the grandiose Crucifixion in the Sala dell’Albergo.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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