# The Conversion of Saul \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The Conversion of Saul \(detail\) c. 1545 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington The ambitious young Tintoretto makes the theme of the conversion of Saul the occasion for a battle picture. He took the river landscape with horsemen galloping over a bridge and the soldiers sliding down the slope from a famous painting by Titian for which a preparatory drawing has survived. Like Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari and Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina, Titian's Battle of Spoleto was long regarded as an exemplary model for the depiction of warfare. ## Related artworks - [A Philosopher \(detail\)]() - [A Philosopher]() - [Allegory of Faith]() - [Allegory of Fortune \(Felicità\)]() - [Allegory of Generosity]() - [Allegory of Goodness]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Carità]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Marco]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Teodoro]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()