{Italian High Renaissance –}{Tintoretto}[28th April 1991]

[Redbook9:202][19910428:0955r]{Italian High Renaissance –}{Tintoretto}[28th April 1991]

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‘Jacobo Robusti, called Tintoretto, was most interested in Titian’s use of dramatic light and heightened emotion.... Perhaps the best summary of his career can be found in ‘The Last Supper’ of 1594 painted for the Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (Plate 11).* In this painting Tintoretto has made use of all the rapidly receding diagonals and dramatic foreshortenings of the Mannerist vocabulary, but he has brought to the painting the Venetian’s love of light to define the forms and to heighten the drama. The head of Christ is bathed in light that is repeated in the smoky lamps so that the source of the light cannot be known. Light is used, as in the work of Titian, to pick out certain forms, to throw others into darkness, and to create a sense of movement within the composition. The comparison of this painting with Leonardo’s “Last Supper”** of 100 years earlier reveals the differences between the [early] High Renaissance and the trends of painting in the 16^th century.

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**cf [[Redbook9:195-197][19910428:0955c]{Italian High Renaissance – Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo}[28th April 1991],] 195

***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25: 348-349]

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