# Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 90 x 190 cm ## Commentary Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia c. 1564 Oil on canvas, 90 x 190 cm Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice Among the sixteen allegories around the central painting on the ceiling of the Sala dell'Albergo are five allegorical figures of the Scoule Grandi of Venice. These and the other allegorical figures of the Cardinal Virtues are portrayed in forced and artificial poses and attitudes of truly Mannerist origin. They were particularly studied by Tintoretto in preliminary drawings. In the Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia, the Virgin, who has inserted on her breast a medallion showing the Child Jesus, stretches out her arms drawing the brothers close to her. ## 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 di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Marco]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Teodoro]() - [Allegory of Truth]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()