The Last Supper

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Tintoretto: Last Supper

Tintoretto: Last Supper

The Last Supper

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Tintoretto
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…form of composition in his Last Supper of San Marcuola (1547), in which the choice of rough and popular types succeeds in endorsing the scene with a portrayal of ordinary everyday reality struck with wonder by the revelation of the miracle.
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…form of composition in his Last Supper of San Marcuola (1547), in which the choice of rough and popular types succeeds in endorsing the scene with a portrayal of ordinary everyday reality struck with wonder by the revelation of the miracle.
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Western painting
The High Renaissance in Venice
…can be found in the Last Supper of 1592–94, painted for the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. In this painting Tintoretto made use of all the rapidly receding diagonals and dramatic foreshortenings of the Mannerist vocabulary, but he brought to the painting the Venetians’ love of light effects to…
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…can be found in the Last Supper of 1592–94, painted for the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. In this painting Tintoretto made use of all the rapidly receding diagonals and dramatic foreshortenings of the Mannerist vocabulary, but he brought to the painting the Venetians’ love of light effects to…
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