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Tintoretto's Painting of Paradise in the Great Council Chamber of the Doge's Palace

c. 1740
Francesco Zucchi (Italian, 1692–1764) After a drawing by Francesco Zugno (Italian, 1709–1787) After a painting by Tintoretto (Jacopo di Giovanni Battista Robusti) (Italian (active Venice), 1519–1594)
Tintoretto's canvas depicting Paradise ruled over by Christ and the Virgin Mary covers an entire wall in the Great Council Chamber in Venice. The Doge and leading patricians of the city would sit on the platform beneath the painting during council meetings. The massive picture, measuring over seventy-four feet wide, is reputed to be the largest canvas in the world. It is the crowning glory of the Council Chamber's elaborate decorative scheme, to which all the major artists of the city contributed after a fire in the Council Chamber in 1577.

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