Assumption of the Virgin
by TINTORETTO, Oil on canvas, 244 x 137 cm
The painting once hung in the Venetian church of San Stin, or St Stephen Priest, a structure that was torn down shortly after its secularisation in 1810.
Within the brilliantly calculated composition - a vortex of rotary movement - we can distinguish among the Apostles at least three portraits, no doubts representing the picture’s commissioners.