BRERA, Tintoretto - Finding Of The Body Of St. Mark

You are now in one of Brera's four main rooms, which are divided by pairs of columns and illuminated by round skylights. These rooms are called "Napoleonic" because they date back to when the museum was founded. In fact, Napoleon is still present here in flesh... and plaster, as you can see from the statue the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova dedicated to him.

These halls are home to the museum's greatest paintings which are almost all of religious subjects, including one of the most unusual ones, The Finding of the body of St. Mark. This vast square canvas was part of a painting cycle of the second half of the 1500s by the great Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, who was called Tintoretto because his father dyed fabrics (tintore in Italian)....