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Bordone And Tintoretto Comparison

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Painters other than Bordone have also painted the scene in which Christ is with the doctors. Bordone is clearly influence by one of these paintings while painting his work. It is said that the painting by Bordone is indebted to a similar depiction of the same subject by Tintoretto (Ilchman, "Christ Disputing in the Temple," in Eye of the Beholder). When we look at Tintoretto’s version of the painting, we can see clear similarities between both his and Bordone’s. The immediate similarities being the use of light, as well as how Bordone chooses to shift the painting to capture the most interesting moments in the story, rather than show just one snippet of the action presented in the written work. In Tintoretto’s, we cannot see Mary or Joseph in sight, much like the Hofmann we …show more content…

Bordone would have most likely seen this painting before he painted his. This is due to the fact that both him and Tintoretto are Venetian painters, and both were assistants to Titian, another very famous Venetian artist (Ilchman). While the perspective offered in Tintoretto’s painting is not naturalistic, and the scale of the many figures is rather skewed, we can still see the influence he had on Bordone. In Tintoretto’s painting it shows the same dramatic scene that Bordone paints. The figures are all in movement, looking at books, debating with either Christ, or themselves. Which is essentially what Bordone’s painting is demonstrating as well. Tintoretto also depicts Christ on a throne surrounded by the doctors, which mirrors Bordone’s. The only difference from Tintoretto’s, is that there are less people, and Christ is not in the exact center in Bordone’s painting. Bordone uses a more realistic approach to his painting than Tintoretto. Tintoretto chooses to make the figures in the foreground gigantic, and with large books that don’t seem realistic at

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