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The Triumph of the Eucharist in the Paintings for the Sala dell’Albergo and the Sala Superiore in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Jacopo Tintoretto (ca. 1518/19-1594)

David, L. Kencik
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1590600384514719

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2020, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco, founded in 1478 in Venice, possessed the relics of the plague saint, Roch, which were housed in the confraternity’s adjacent church. In 1564 Jacopo Tintoretto won a competition to decorate the ceiling of the Albergo (meeting room of the scuola’s governing board), completing the work that year with a depiction of Saint Roch in Glory surrounded by representations of other scuole grandi and allegories of virtues and the seasons. The artist was then commissioned to paint the walls, which he finished in 1567 with scenes from the Passion of Christ. Tintoretto returned eight years later at the beginning of the devastating plague of 1575-76 to paint the Sala Superiore—the chapter room (Sala Capitolare), where the membership met as a group (completed in 1581). The thesis focuses on the paintings Tintoretto executed in the Albergo and Sala Superiore, with particular attention given to the three main ceiling paintings of the Sala Superiore, The Brazen Serpent, Moses Drawing Water from the Rock, and The Fall of Manna. Together, these works communicate the transformative power of the Eucharist and the mission of the confraternity to aid the citizens of a city whose far-flung sea trade made it vulnerable to outbreaks of the plague. The prominent location of the paintings and their significance to the role of the confraternity in providing charity are explored in relation to healing power of Christ, whose physical presence was manifest at the Eucharist, and the intervention of Saint Roch (and his relics, physically present nearby). The thesis concludes with an examination of the significance of Tintoretto’s The Brazen Serpent and Albergo Passion scenes for the wall paintings of the staircase: Saint Roch Invoked Against the Plague (1666) by Antonio Zanchi (1631-1722) and Venice Granted Termination of the Plague (1673) by Pietro Negri (1628-79), both painted in commemoration of the Virgin’s intervention in ending the plague that swept the city in 1630.
Marilyn Bradshaw, Ph.D. (Advisor)
130 p.
Art History; Bible; Medicine; Religious History
Europe; Italy; Venice; Renaissance; San Rocco; Saint Roch; Confraternity; Scuola Grande; Eucharist; Plague; Tintoretto; 16th century; Sixteenth century; Brazen Serpent; Manna; Moses; Passion; Pilate; Ceiling; Antonio Zanchi; Pietro Negri; pizzigamorti

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  • David, L. K. (2020). The Triumph of the Eucharist in the Paintings for the Sala dell’Albergo and the Sala Superiore in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Jacopo Tintoretto (ca. 1518/19-1594) [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1590600384514719

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  • David, L.. The Triumph of the Eucharist in the Paintings for the Sala dell’Albergo and the Sala Superiore in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Jacopo Tintoretto (ca. 1518/19-1594). 2020. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1590600384514719.

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  • David, L.. "The Triumph of the Eucharist in the Paintings for the Sala dell’Albergo and the Sala Superiore in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Jacopo Tintoretto (ca. 1518/19-1594)." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1590600384514719

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