''Presentation at the Temple'' is a 1554-1556 oil on canvas painting by

Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with ...

, painted for the church of Santa Maria dei Crociferi and now in the

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery o ...

, in

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. Presentazione di Carlo Bernardi, ''L'opera completa del Tintoretto'', Milano, Rizzoli, 1970, p. 97, 98. It was commissioned by the ''Scuola dei Bottari'', which is referenced by a small barrel or ''botte'' on the steps below the altar. Robert Echols and Frederik Ilchman (ed.s), ''Tintoretto 1519 - 1594'', Marsilio, 2018, p. 114, ISBN 978-88-317-1135-7.

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