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Jacopo Tintoretto: Creation of the Animals

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Alternative names	Il Tintoretto, Il Furioso, Jacopo Robusti, Birth name: Jacopo Comin
Description	Italian painter, architectural draftsperson and visual artist
Date of birth/death	1519	31 May 1594
Location of birth/death	Venice	Venice
Work period	from 1539 until 1594 date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1539-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1594-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Venice
Authority file	: Q9319 VIAF: 95161574 ISNI: 0000000121441428 ULAN: 500011407 LCCN: n50011866 NLA: 35550876 WorldCat

Title

Creation of the Animals

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religious art

Date

from 1551 until 1553

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

151 × 258 cm

Collection

Gallerie dell'Accademia

	Native name	Gallerie dell'Accademia
	Location	Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050, Venice, Italy
	Coordinates	45° 25′ 51.88″ N, 12° 19′ 41.3″ E
	Established	1817
	Website	gallerieaccademia.it
	Authority file	: Q338330 VIAF: 145358176 ISNI: 0000000123369896 LCCN: n83215494 CiNii: DA0213151X J9U: 987007261392405171 WorldCat

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900 (Gallerie dell'Accademia)

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TINTORETTO

(b. 1518, Venezia, d. 1594, Venezia)

Creation of the Animals 1551-52 Oil on canvas, 151 x 258 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

One of the major achievements of Tintoretto's early works is the series of canvases painted in about 1550 for the Sala dell'Albergo of the Scuola della Santissima Trinitá. And of these the Creation of the animals is certainly unique for the swirling rhythm of the composition. In a blaze of golden light, which does not entirely escape the darkness still partly enveloping the newly created earth God the Father is portrayed as if suspended in mid-air in the act of creation. The animals rush forward from behind him while the birds shoot across the sky and the fishes dart through the water like arrows from his hand. The dramatic wind-swept scene is furrowed by the profiles of the animals which cross the canvas in running lines, conveying with extraordinary concision and expressiveness the theme of the work.

Like Pietro Aretino's novel on the subject of Genesis, Tintoretto's painting shows the unicorn (right). The alleged curative and decontaminating qualities of the narwhal tusk, an essential item in every Renaissance cabinet of curiosities, were regarded as proof of the existence of this fabulous creature. Exotic creatures like the ostrich walking on the shore were much admired as gifts from guests to the princely courts of northern Italy, and were portrayed in drawings or engravings. As a true Venetian, however, Tintoretto here devotes particular artistic skill to the fishes, including sturgeon, salmon and red mullet.

Tintoretto's model for this composition was Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (National Gallery, London); he adopted the flying divine figure as well as the setting. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 12 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/18_cent/haydn_creation.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Joseph Haydn: The Creation, introduction and aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>

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