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

The Last Judgment (detail)

1560-62
Oil on canvas
Madonna dell'Orto, Venice

The line of the waterfall leading diagonally down is precisely adapted to the angle of vision of a viewer in the church. It forms a well-calculated, symmetrical pendant to the improvised awning set up to protect the Israelite women from the sun in the painting opposite (Moses Receiving the Tables of the Law).