CARITAS

“The Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice counts among the most impressive places of art in the whole of Italy. Brian Bishop has written an empathetic, informative, and in-depth guide to Tintoretto’s works which will benefit the visitor and contribute to the appreciation of one of Italy’s great artists.”


—Gesa E. Thiessen, Trinity College, Dublin





“Brian Bishop has now provided the visitor with an exceptionally accessible, and user-friendly, companion on what can so easily, through contemporary, post-Christian eyes, seem little more than a physically demanding, and not always intelligible, exercise in visual theology. He not only writes with enviable clarity and lightness of touch, yet with a vivid awareness of the complex credal and civic politics of post-Tridentine Venice. Tintorreto himself would have surely welcomed this, and so indeed should today’s visitors.”


—Graham Howes. author of The Art of the Sacred





“Brian Bishop is that rara avis—an amateur art historian who knows his subject by long acquaintance, deep learning, and committed passion. But he is also no mean theologian and that puts him out ahead of the commentators and pundits in getting inside Tintoretto’s imagination. The result is this fascinating monograph which should be—like a visit to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco—on the top of the list for the discerning visitor to Venice.”


—David Stancliffe, former Bishop of Salisbury