Portrait of the procurator Jacopo Soranzo

Procurator Jacopo Soranzo had himself
painted by Tintoretto twice during the last months of his life. In this canvas preserved in the Pinacoteca del Castello,
Tintoretto reaches one of his greatest expressions in portraiture. The
subject’s face is revealed by the light that strikes its features, rendered
with restless and very free painting. Here
the elements of aristocratic decorum, typical of the official portrait, are
completely abandoned, and all the attention is focused on the psychological
view of the man, summed up in his absorbed, suffering gaze.