Venice is honouring the Venetian painter Tintoretto on the 500th anniversary of his birth. This post proposes a brief analysis of one of his artworks that you can admire in the Doge’s Palace: Tintoretto’s Paradise in the Great Council room is possibly one of the largest oil paintings on canvas ever executed.
Discover why a portrait of a Doge is missing on the frieze in the Great Council Chamber of the Doge’s Palace. Find out about Marin Falier’s political carrier, about the bad omen upon his return to Venice as Doge, when Venice was shrouded in thick fog, about his plot and conspiracy against the State and how his portrait was blackened for ever.