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Like its counterpart, the Evangelists Mark and John, this painting can almost be described as brunaille (painting in brown on brown).
These two paintings adorned the inner sides of two organ wings, and were therefore visible when the organ was being played. Tintoretto ingeniously refers to this by showing all four Evangelists turning as they sit on their clouds to listen to the organ. Its sound is therefore equated with the music of heaven and the source of scriptural inspiration.
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