The Fall of Manna by Tintoretto

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The Fall of Manna by Tintoretto is a large 16th-century Venetian Renaissance painting depicting the biblical scene of God providing manna to the Israelites in the wilderness.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Renaissance painting
painting
artMovement Mannerism
artStyleCharacteristic crowded multi-figure scene
dramatic lighting
dynamic composition
strong chiaroscuro
associatedWith Catholic Counter-Reformation art
basedOn Biblical story of manna in the Book of Exodus
biblicalBookDepicted Book of Exodus
collection Scuola Grande di San Rocco
colorPalette rich Venetian colorism
commissionedFor Scuola Grande di San Rocco confraternity
countryOfOrigin Republic of Venice
creator Tintoretto
culture Venetian
depicts Israelites in the wilderness
Old Testament scene
manna from heaven
genre religious painting
hasGenre history painting
hasPart figures of Israelites gathering manna
heavenly light representing divine intervention
iconographicTheme Old Testament miracle
divine providence
inception circa 1577
languageOfWork none
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Italy
Veneto
location Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice
mainSubject God providing manna to the Israelites
materialUsed oil paint
movement Venetian Renaissance
notableFor dramatic narrative treatment of a biblical subject
large scale
notableWorkOf Tintoretto
paintingTechnique oil on canvas
partOf decoration cycle of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
partOfSeries Old Testament cycle at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
placeOfOrigin Venice
religion Christianity
significantEventDepicted miraculous feeding of the Israelites
subjectHeading Manna (Biblical theme)
surface canvas
timePeriod 16th century
useOfPerspective dramatic foreshortening

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Church of San Giorgio Maggiore hasArtwork The Fall of Manna by Tintoretto