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

Marriage at Cana (detail)

1561
Oil on canvas
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

Tintoretto painted this huge canvas for the refectory of the monastery of the Crociferi. The author may have portrayed his painter friends as the guests and their models as the women. His self-portrait appears in the first guest on the left, and at the hem of the robe he placed his signature and the date: 1561 - Jacomo Tentor. Note the play of perspective in the painting, which moves according to the angle from which it is viewed. The typical aspects of the master's style are apparent: the light sources from within, the movement of the characters, the geometrical construction of the interior and the nobility of the scene as a whole.




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