“Presentation Of The Virgin Mary In The Temple”.
Artist: Tintoretto.
Date: Circa 1553.
Location:
Church Of The Madonna dell’Orto, Venice.
Feast Day 21 November.
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“Presentation Of The Virgin” is an oil-on-canvas painting of the Presentation of Mary by Tintoretto, created circa 1551-1556, in the Church of Madonna dell'Orto in Venice.[1]
Vasari’s Lives of the Artists calls it: “A finished work, and the best-made and most felicitous painting in that place”.[3]
