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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:30:00

A parish church in the San Polo sestiere rebuilt in the seventeenth century on medieval foundations, significant primarily for three major paintings by Jacopo Tintoretto in the chancel: the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Descent into Limbo, created between 1565 and 1568. These large-scale canvases demonstrate Tintoretto's dramatic use of diagonal composition, theatrical lighting, and muscular figure drawing that defined late Venetian Mannerism and anticipated the baroque sensibility. Th...