The Miracle of St. Mark (1548): 416×544 cm, oil on canvas, held at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. Tintoreto (1518–1594) was the painter who concluded the Venetian Renaissance and is the most representative figure of Venetian Mannerism. In his early years, he studied under Titian for two years, then followed Schiavon and Pâris Bordone, before turning toward Michelangelo’s rich forms. His painting style is characterized by a Mannerist approach featuring multiple variations and vibrant, abundant colors; he inherited Titian’s rich and varied palette while adding Michelangelo’s ever-changing forms. From 1548 onward, using an original visual language, he achieved perfection through complex shapes, multiple forms, and richly variable colors, emitting a social tension. His paintings are renowned for being vigorous, bold, powerful, and passionate, representing another peak after Michelangelo’s dramatic painting in the Italian Renaissance. The famous British writer Ruskin once criticized thus: "Tintoreto’s achievements in painting rival those of Michelangelo."

The dramatic picture The Miracle of St. Mark is the largest and most dramatic work in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. It reveals his strong personality and intense emotion, movement forms, chiaroscuro, vivid colors, and an innovative double-diagonal composition that pushed painting art to its extreme, concluding the painting of the Italian Renaissance. In this passionate, grand theatrical scene, it depicts the plot where a knight’s squire, having violated his master’s worship of relics, is sentenced to public torture. St. Mark descends from heaven to save the squire from the cruel torture inflicted by the crowd. The entire painting revolves around the wounded body of the besieged naked squire lying on the ground with broken legs, helpless against the excited crowd wielding various instruments of torture without mercy. At this moment, the miracle of St. Mark descends from heaven, floating above the squire. With a divine gesture, he shatters all the torture instruments, revealing an extraordinary miracle under an innovative perspective. This is one of Tintoreto’s most brilliant and representative works.