Tintoretto

Paradise, Scuola di San Rocco — Venetian fury

Il Furioso — the furious one. His ambition was to combine the drawing of Michelangelo with the color of Titian. The Paradise in the Doge's Palace is the largest canvas painting in the world; the Scuola di San Rocco cycle is the most sustained feat of narrative painting since the Sistine ceiling.

Key works

• Paradise (Doge's Palace)1588-1592— The largest canvas painting in the world
  Palazzo Ducale, Venice
• Scuola di San Rocco cycle1564-1588— 56 paintings — Venice's Sistine Chapel
  Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice
• Last Supper (San Giorgio Maggiore)1594— Dramatic light — the supernatural erupts into the everyday
  San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

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