# Pasquale Cicogna in the Church of the Crociferi Receives News of His Election to the Dogeship [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALMA GIOVANE]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 369 x 262 cm ## Commentary The second scene takes place at the high altar of the church, where we can also see the leg of a kneeling apostle in one corner of Tintoretto' Assumption \(now in the church of Gesuiti to which it was transferred after the demolition of the church of Crociferi\). The narration of the event shows the boy bearing the good news, Cicogna's restrained surprise, and the more enthusiastic congratulations of the hospitaler, Priamo Balbi. In the third scene, before the dignitaries of the Church and a group of Venetian nobles, the ubiquitous Priamo Balbi ushers two elderly women from the hospital into the presence of the new doge, who has already assumed the solemn demeanour that befits his station. In the background there is an extraordinary gallery of portraits, ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\)]() - [Amusements of the Prodigal Son]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(1\)]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(2\)]() - [Apostles at the Virgin's Tomb]() - [David and Achimelech]() - [Doge Francesco Venier Presents the Subject Cities to Venice]() - [Doge Pietro Loredan Beseeching the Virgin]() - [Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Paolo Veronese]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi \(detail\)]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()