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TINTORETTO: Last Supper

🖼 Last Supper, c. 1570
Oil on canvas
228 × 535 cm
San Polo
Venice, Italy

Diagonal composition and dramatic chiaroscuro thrust figures into spiritual space, with Christ isolated amid swirling servants and apostles. This revolutionary staging rejected Renaissance symmetry, establishing Mannerist dynamism that influenced centuries of religious art interpretation.

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E. H. Gombrich
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