Tintoretto

Tintoretto's paintings organize sacred narratives through moving figures, directed light, and a strong sense of action. The Miracle of the Slave gives a story of Saint Mark an unexpected arrangement of bodies and viewpoints, while his Last Supper compositions develop the relationship between figures and their surrounding space. Large commissions for Venetian churches, confraternities, and government buildings connect this practice with the city's religious and civic institutions. At the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, he developed an extensive decorative project over many years, adapting sacred stories to the meeting place of a religious confraternity. Drawings explore the body's structure and movement and formed part of his workshop's teaching practice. The Origin of the Milky Way applies his active figures and airborne movement to a classical story, extending a varied painted output that also includes portraits.