The Trinity Adored by the Heavenly Choir

Italian (Venetian School), 1519−1594
c. 1590
Oil on canvas
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Tintoretto was one of the greatest Manneristartists. He used bizarre lighting effects, elongated figures, and dramatic spatial effects to convey a sense of distortion created through divine presence. This is a psychologically dramatic form of Mannerism. It is influenced by the emotionalism of Counter-Reformation religious art. The angel in the lower left looking at the viewer is a portrait of Tintoretto’s daughter Marietta. She was a painter in his workshop. It was likely added after Marietta’s death in 1590.