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The Last Supper

work by Tintoretto

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discussed in biography

  • Tintoretto: Last Supper
    In Tintoretto: Career

    …form of composition in his Last Supper of San Marcuola (1547), in which the choice of rough and popular types succeeds in endorsing the scene with a portrayal of ordinary everyday reality struck with wonder by the revelation of the miracle.

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place in Renaissance art

  • St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
    In Western painting: The High Renaissance in Venice

    …can be found in “The Last Supper” of 1594, painted for the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. In this painting Tintoretto made use of all the rapidly receding diagonals and dramatic foreshortenings of the Mannerist vocabulary, but he brought to the painting the Venetians’ love of light effects…

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