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TINTORETTO: The Last Supper

🖼 The Last Supper, 1592-94
Oil on canvas
365 × 568 cm
Venice, Italy

Dramatic diagonal composition sweeps across the canvas as Christ breaks bread amid swirling apostles, rendered in bold chiaroscuro with ethereal light. Tintoretto revolutionized religious narrative by rejecting static formality, capturing spiritual intensity through dynamic movement and psychological immediacy that influenced Baroque art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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