Tintoretto: Perbedaan antara revisi

While the commission for this huge work was yet pending and unassigned Tintoretto was wont to tell the senators that he had prayed to God that he might be commissioned for it, so that paradise itself might perchance be his recompense after death. Upon eventually receiving the commission in 1588 he set up his canvas in the [[Scuola della Misericordia]] and worked indefatigably at the task, making many alterations and doing various heads and costumes direct from nature.

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When the picture had been nearly completed he took it to its proper place and there finished it, assisted by his son [[Domenico Tintoretto|Domenico]] for details of drapery, etc. All Venice applauded the superb achievement, which has since suffered from neglect, but little from restoration. Tintoretto was asked to name his own price, but this he left to the authorities. They tendered a handsome amount; he is said to have abated something from it, an incident perhaps more telling of his lack of greed than earlier cases where he worked for nothing at all.