TINTORETTO
(b. 1518, Venezia, d. 1594, Venezia)

Assumption of the Virgin

c. 1550
Oil on canvas, 244 x 137 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

The painting once hung in the Venetian church of San Stin, or St Stephen Priest, a structure that was torn down shortly after its secularisation in 1810.

Within the brilliantly calculated composition - a vortex of rotary movement - we can distinguish among the Apostles at least three portraits, no doubts representing the picture's commissioners.