Venice. Tintoretto’s “Crucifixion” in this city’s Sala dell’Albergo (“board room”) of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, completed in 1565, provokes hyperbole, and not just because of ...

The endeavour went on to take up much of Tintoretto’s working life, but it is one of his earliest paintings for the series that is the most celebrated—The Crucifixion, from 1565.

The emphatically horizontal Crucifixion, measuring 17-and-a-half by 40 feet, is possibly Tintoretto’s greatest work. The Scuola is the best place to appreciate Tintoretto’s achievement.

Tintoretto was a controversial figure in Venetian artistic life, ... Along one wall is a giant rendering of the Crucifixion that, rather like the choir paintings at Madonna dell-Albergo, ...

Madonna dell’Orto contains Tintoretto’s three massive paintings of Moses, the Crucifixion, and the Presentation at the Temple. They cemented his fame. These, too, are enormous.

Tintoretto, the most ambitious ... The huge 1565 “The Crucifixion” that he created for a confraternity, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, which bustles with detail and incident, ...

I just submitted an article for the Wall Street Journal’s ’masterpiece’ column on the subject of Tintoretto, the sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Here I make the argument that in his monumental ...

The crucifixion is happening before our very eyes, as the title reminds us. This ladder, had it once been needed, could have been removed by now. ... Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (1518-94) ...

At the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice the Dynamic Light and Augmented Reality project transforms the viewing of Tintoretto's Crucifixion into a completely new experience In some churches this is ...

In his new novel, The Testament of Mary, Irish author Colm Toibin imagines Mary's life 20 years after the crucifixion, as she wonders what she might have done differently to ease her son's suffering.