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Jacopo Tintoretto

Jacopo Tintoretto Last Supper oil painting on canvas
Last Supper
Painting ID::  30530
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Jacopo Tintoretto Last Supper oil painting on canvas



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  Jacopo Tintoretto
  1518-1594 Italian painter. His father was a silk dyer (tintore); hence the nickname Tintoretto ("Little Dyer"). His early influences include Michelangelo and Titian. In Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545) figures are set in vast spaces in fanciful perspectives, in distinctly Mannerist style. In 1548 he became the centre of attention of artists and literary men in Venice with his St. Mark Freeing the Slave, so rich in structural elements of post-Michelangelo Roman art that it is surprising to learn that he had never visited Rome. By 1555 he was a famous and sought-after painter, with a style marked by quickness of execution, great vivacity of colour, a predilection for variegated perspective, and a dynamic conception of space. In his most important undertaking, the decoration of Venice's Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1564 ?C 88), he exhibited his passionate style and profound religious faith. His technique and vision were wholly personal and constantly evolving.
  Last Supper
  mk68 Oil on canvas 12'x8'7" Venice Church of San Giorgio Maggiore 1592-1594 Italy

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