Jacopo Tintoretto - Christ at the Sea of Galilee

Whenever I am in front of this painting the words German Expressionist Cinema come to my mind. I talked about this association with some friends; they disagreed. Howewer, think at some stylistic features shared by those movies: chiaroscuro lighting , surrealistic settings... a remarkable fluidity of mobile framing (Pam Cook, Cinema Book), dream like atmosphere... uncanny evocation of Stimmung (Louis Giannetti, Scott Eyman, Flashback, A Brief History Of Film).





(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)