Jacopo Robusti, better known as Tintoretto, was already in his 70s when he started to paint Paradise in the Doge’s Palace in 1588. He had won a competition held by the Serenissima Republic after a fire had broken out in 1577. The huge canvas hangs in the Great Council Hall. Jacopo was helped by his son Domenico (Venice, 1560 - 1635) and his workshop. Numerous models of it exist. The one in the Collezione Intesa Sanpaolo at the Querini is attributed to him by general consensus. Following in his father’s wake, he breaks up the heavenly assembly, which is no longer set out in a semicircle in contemplation but in tumultuous groups. The work was finished in 1594, the year of the old master’s death.