ABSTRACT
For most of the sixteenth century-from his first works around 1510 to his death sixty-six years later-Titian was the presiding genius of Venetian painting. Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, who, like Titian, enjoyed a long and productive career, was a forceful, eccentric painter of major talent. Even in his first important works around 1545, Tintoretto reveals an understanding and appreciation of Titian's paintings without ever slavishly copying them. The church of the Madonna dell'Orto contains the Presentation of the Virgin and several other large important paintings by Tintoretto. A chapel in the church houses his final resting place. Veronese's Holy Family with Saints Catherine and Anthony Abbot was apparently done in his native city and sent to Venice. However, it is deeply indebted to Titian's Pesaro Altarpiece, finished some thirty years before. Veronese has trimmed Titian's painting on all sides by shortening the columns, reducing the lateral extension of space, and compacting the figures.
