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What happens in Tintoretto’s Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda?
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Tintoretto
Last Supper, oil painting by Tintoretto, 1594; in the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. 3.5 × 5.6 metres.
In Tintoretto’s painting Christ Healing the Paralytic (The Pool of Bethesda), located in the church of San Rocco and dated to 1559, the biblical episode is depicted within a compressed space. The composition features a milling crowd, and the foreshortened ceiling is rendered in a way that appears to weigh down upon the figures within the scene.1