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"Christ at the Sea of Galilee"

Tintoretto had a mostly Venetian audience and was known for painting scenes of Venice, but this painting departs from this path. Additionally, the scene was made to look overly dramatic rather than realistic. The paint is thin and Tintoretto uses extreme highlights, intensifying the darkness and light that seems to come from a compressed and directed light source.

The painting is oil on canvas, measures 46.1 in × 66.6 inches and is on display in the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C