How Did Tintoretto At The Madonna Dell Orto
Tintoretto at the Madonna dell’Orto
The Madonna dell’Orto in Carnnaregio is full of the activities of Tintoretto. It is originally dedicated to St. Christropher, and was run by the Secular Canons of San Giorgio in Alga, a monastic community. With a close relationship with the Canons, Tintoretto decorated this church with multiple paintings, including the Last Judgement, and the Worship of the Golden Calf, finished in 1566, and the Miracle of St. Agnes altarpiece in the mid-1560s, which all will be discussed in this reading.
The Madonna dell’Orto was his local church. Documents record that he had lived in the neighborhood of the church since 1548, long before he began these paintings. He was even buried there with the members of his family, in a chapel. The very circumstances of the commission proclaim the painter’s ambition. Tintoretto himself proposed the commission to the prior of the church and offered the pictures at a minimal charge, …show more content…
He proposed to the fathers of the Madonna dell’Orto to paint two large pictures for the chapel of the high altar, which was fifty feet high. Through this commission he would prove to the Venetian public, and himself, that he remained a vital force.
In the upper section of the canvas on the left wall of the choir of the Madonna dell’Orto, Tintoretto shows Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law in his painting, the Worship of the Golden Calf. The lower section depicts the very rare subject of the creation of the golden calf. The painting depicts the scenes in same chapter of the bible, Exodus 32, in a single frame. While Moses, transfigured by divine light, receives the tablets, the Jews collect gold from which to fashion the calf. A clay
The Madonna dell’Orto in Carnnaregio is full of the activities of Tintoretto. It is originally dedicated to St. Christropher, and was run by the Secular Canons of San Giorgio in Alga, a monastic community. With a close relationship with the Canons, Tintoretto decorated this church with multiple paintings, including the Last Judgement, and the Worship of the Golden Calf, finished in 1566, and the Miracle of St. Agnes altarpiece in the mid-1560s, which all will be discussed in this reading.
The Madonna dell’Orto was his local church. Documents record that he had lived in the neighborhood of the church since 1548, long before he began these paintings. He was even buried there with the members of his family, in a chapel. The very circumstances of the commission proclaim the painter’s ambition. Tintoretto himself proposed the commission to the prior of the church and offered the pictures at a minimal charge, …show more content…
He proposed to the fathers of the Madonna dell’Orto to paint two large pictures for the chapel of the high altar, which was fifty feet high. Through this commission he would prove to the Venetian public, and himself, that he remained a vital force.
In the upper section of the canvas on the left wall of the choir of the Madonna dell’Orto, Tintoretto shows Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law in his painting, the Worship of the Golden Calf. The lower section depicts the very rare subject of the creation of the golden calf. The painting depicts the scenes in same chapter of the bible, Exodus 32, in a single frame. While Moses, transfigured by divine light, receives the tablets, the Jews collect gold from which to fashion the calf. A clay