San francesco della vigna venice tintoretto biography

San francesco della vigna venice tintoretto biography pdf

In the foreground two women help the swooning Mary, the mother of Christ.

Today, this church and Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari are the only Franciscan churches in Venice.

Along with Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, this is one of two Franciscan churches in Venice.

It was his first major commission in Venice, painted around , four years before he settled here.