\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This was the preparatory sketch for a large canvas that Tintoretto painted for the Salone del Maggior Consiglio in the DogeÆs Palace a
t Venice. The enormous picture (7 x 22 m./23 x 72 ft.) was placed on the wall above the DogeÆs throne. The overall effect is one of grandeur and fanciful suggestion, in a true monument to the Catholic triumphalism of the Counter Reformation.\par