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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tintoretto, La Crocifissione, 1565 -- Scuola di San Rocco

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In "The Crucifixion" we see all the features that make Tintoretto a precursor of Baroque painting: an inexhaustible fertility of invention, an incomparable feeling for stage-setting, an angle of vision that elongates his figures in a spectacular way, dramatic-oblique strokes, and finally an extraordinary use of ligt that makes the colours vibrate and gives the composition an extra dimension as it ligts up the human figures or casts them into shadow.

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