Visitation (Tintoretto, Venice)

The Visitation is a c.1588 oil painting of the Biblical Visitation by Tintoretto, held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. The picture, first recorded in a 1588 receipt, hangs high over an arch on the main staircase, In this composition Elizabeth to the right appears to be catching Mary as she stumbles forward. Behind Elizabeth is Zechariah and at the far left stands Joseph. Tintoretto had also painted the same event some thirty years previously, a c.1550 version which hangs in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.

Visitation (Tintoretto, Venice)

The Visitation is a c.1588 oil painting of the Biblical Visitation by Tintoretto, held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. The picture, first recorded in a 1588 receipt, hangs high over an arch on the main staircase, In this composition Elizabeth to the right appears to be catching Mary as she stumbles forward. Behind Elizabeth is Zechariah and at the far left stands Joseph. Tintoretto had also painted the same event some thirty years previously, a c.1550 version which hangs in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.