Today we made the long journey to Venice for the day. We began at the Scuole Grande San Rocco which now serves as a museum. The interior of the Scuola has been decorated entirely by the famed painter Tintoretto in the mid to late 1500s. The paintings illustrate Biblical scenes that range from the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to images from the New Testament. All of the characters in his paintings follow the ever-grow progressive painting style we have learned about in class. The figures represented have muscular, anatomically correct bodies, and scenes are correctly arranged according to perspective. These qualities are indicative of Renaissance artistic practices, and lend to the dramatic and realistic feeling of the space.
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