# Design for an Allegory of Fortune \(Felicità\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Black chalk on white paper, 206 x 275 mm ## Commentary The design for the ceiling painting of the Felicità in the Sala dell'Albergo in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco shows that even when figures were to be shown clothed, Tintoretto first drew them as nudes. In the painting he could then drape the clothing more convincingly on a body that had been drawn with anatomical precision. As here, his workshop assistants served as models even for female figures - the feminine right breast was added only later, drawn without a live model. The arching lines with which Tintoretto depicts the sculptural volume of the figure at regular intervals are striking. ## 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]()