Museum
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Campo S. Rocco, 3052, 30125 Venezia VE
Grand confraternity hall wrapped floor to ceiling in a single painter's decades-long cycle of biblical scenes.
This guide to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice centers on 1564, when a confraternity invited Venice's leading painters to compete for its ceiling and Tintoretto skipped the sketch stage entirely, finishing the whole painting in secret and hoisting it into place before his rivals had submitted a drawing. You'll hear how the furious judges tried to reject it, and the move Tintoretto made next to force their hand. It follows the decades of work that single stunt bought him inside this building.
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