Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Paradise
Image View:
Detail, saints and angels
Creator:
Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian painter, 1519-1594)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Ducale (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco 1; Sala del Senato (Hall of the Senate)
GPS:
45.4339 12.34
Date:
1588-1590 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
mural painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas, applied to wall
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
29.9 ft (height) x 74.1 ft (width)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
Tintoretto’s career ended on a note of triumph. After Veronese’s death in 1588, he finally gained the coveted commission for the painting of the Paradise (1588-1590), which Veronese had not begun, in the Doge’s Palace. Major fires in the Doge's Palace in 1574 and 1577 necessitated the wholesale renovation of its decoration; Tintoretto was charged with replacement of Guariento's 1365 Coronation of the Virgin, located behind the dais on which the doge sat. However, the focus of Tintoretto's Paradise composition was to be Christ rather than Mary, with seething crowds of saints and angels purposefully suggesting a Last Judgment, a fit subject for the Great Council chamber. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-TITIAN-DP-P-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Paradise