# The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The soldier in the shirt of chain mail was modeled on a figure from Titian's Crowning With Thorns \(Musée du Louvre, Paris\), which Tintoretto must have studied closely around 1541 before it was sent to Milan. The depiction of the chain mail gives Tintoretto an opportunity to display his artistic speed and economy: the uniformly dark underpainting on a light ground was first scored with guidelines following the shape of the body, and then the chain-mail links were scraped away, overlaid with a glaze to create shadows, and heightened with lead white. ## 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]()