Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Triumph of Venice
Alternate Title:
Triumph of Venice as Queen of the Sea
Image View:
Overall view of ceiling with tritons and Neptune in lower half
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:
ca. 1582-1584 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
ceiling
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil on canvas, attached to ceiling
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; mythology (Classical); Neptune (Roman deity); Triton (Greek deity); Late Renaissance; sea deities
Description:
Tintoretto had multiple commissions in the Doge's Palace, a sequence of votive and ceiling paintings executed in the important State rooms of the Doge’s Palace. The wooden part of the ceiling of the Hall of the Senate (Sala del Senato) was completed in 1587. The pictorial work began to be realized in 1581 and went on for many years, well beyond 1603. The central painting by Tintoretto (with the assistance of his son, Domenico Robusti) portrays the Triumph of Venice as an ascending vortex of mythological sea creatures which rise towards Venice, seated above, to offer gifts and recognition. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-TITIAN-DP-TV-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Triumph of Venice