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113: 144:, is probably the best-known example. Tintoretto's painting of 1592–1594, a work of his final years, departs drastically from this compositional formula. The centre of the scene is occupied not by the apostles but instead by secondary characters, such as a woman carrying a dish and the servants taking the dishes from the table. The table at which the apostles sit recedes into space on a steep diagonal. Furthermore, Tintoretto's painting features a more personal use of light, which appears to come into obscurity from both the light on the ceiling and from Jesus' 29: 131:
several times during his artistic career. His earlier paintings for the Chiesa di San Marcuola (1547) and for the Chiesa di San Felice (1559) depict the scene from a frontal perspective, with the figures seated at a table placed parallel to the picture plane. This follows a convention observed in
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devices in its complex and radically asymmetrical composition. In its dynamism and emphasis on the quotidian—the setting is similar to a Venetian inn—the painting points the way to the
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ideals and the Catholic Church's belief in the didactic nature of religious art."
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365 cm × 568 cm (144 in × 224 in)
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Jacopo Tintoretto
Oil on canvas
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice
Jacopo Tintoretto
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice

Albrecht Dürer
Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci's late 1490s mural painting
Milan
Italy
aureola
angels
Mannerist
Baroque
Counter-Reformation
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Tintoretto
The Siege of Asola
Madonna and Child with Saints
Esther Before Ahasuerus
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet
Visitation (Bologna)
Cain and Abel
Adam and Eve

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