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Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Last Supper (1523) exemplifies the frontal composition that is customary for this subject. Tintoretto depicted the Last Supper several times during his artistic career. His earlier paintings for the Chiesa di San Marcuola (1547) and for the Chiesa di San Felice (1559) depict the scene from a frontal perspective ...
Shipley Art Gallery version Tintoretto's Last Supper on the left side of the altar at San Marcuola in Venice. The intended place for Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet was on the right side where now is Carlo Ridolfi's copy. The painting was created in 1548/1549 for a church in Venice. [1]
The Last Supper (1594) Tintoretto's pictorial wit is evident in compositions such as Saint George, Saint Louis, and the Princess (1553). He subverts the usual portrayal of the subject, in which Saint George slays the dragon and rescues the princess; here, the princess sits astride the dragon, holding a whip.
These are The Last Supper and The Jews in the desert (which shows them collecting and eating the manna, a gift of God to the Israelites in the desert after they escaped Egypt, and it foretells the gift of the Eucharist). [6] In the Cappella dei Morti (Chapel of the dead) is a painting of the Entombment of Christ, also by Jacopo Tintoretto. [7]
The Last Supper has been a popular subject in Christian art. [1] Such depictions date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome. Byzantine artists frequently focused on the Apostles receiving Communion, rather than the reclining figures having a meal. By the Renaissance, the Last Supper was a favorite topic in Italian ...
Last Supper, 538 × 487; The Loaves and Fishes, 523 × 475 cm; Resurrection of Lazarus, 541 × 356; Ascension, 538 × 325; Christ Heals the Paralytic or Piscina probatica, 533 × 529 cm; Temptation of Christ, 539 × 330 cm; Ceiling of the Sala delle Quattro Porte, 1578-1581, Palazzo Ducale, Venice Jupiter Proclaims Venus Queen of the Seas, 500 ...
The organizers found themselves in hot water over a tableau that seemed to evoke Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” — with a decidedly modern twist. The scene, set against the backdrop ...
The Last Supper by Tintoretto still "in situ" in the church of San Marcuola in Venice. The work was commissioned in 1547 from Tintoretto for the Scuola del Santísimo Sacramento in the church of San Marcuola in Venice, together with a Last Supper, which is still in the church, painted between 1548 and 1549.