''The Crucifixion'' by

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

is a large painting in

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, installed in the Sala dell'Albergo of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco,

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. It is signed and dated 1565. This painting is one of the most dramatic versions of the Crucifixion in the history of Christian art. Tintoretto painted other images of the Crucifixion as well, including one that is in the Church of San Cassiano in Venice (1568), one that is in Church of the

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in Venice (c. 1565)., and one that is in the

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in Venice and was formerly in the Church of San Severo in Venice.

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wrote about visiting all four of these paintings.Tóibín, Colm
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References

* Nichols, Tom (2015)

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''Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity'', revised and expanded second edition. London: Reaktion Books . * Partridge, Loren W. (2015). ''Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600''. Berkeley: University of California Press * Rosand, David (1997)

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''Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto''. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (The 1982 edition is title
''Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto'')

Notes

1565 paintings Oil on canvas paintings Paintings by Tintoretto Paintings of the Crucifixion of Jesus Paintings in Venice {{1560s-painting-stub