This article examines the ceiling paintings executed by Jacopo Tintoretto for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The Venetian painter’s stylistic choices are analyzed utilizing the dialectic between romanitas and venezianità as elucidated by Manfredo Tafuri. This framework, combined with a consideration of the larger political and social context of the scuole grandi, highlights the cultural affinities expressed by the artist and his patrons.

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Original publication: Maratsos, Jessica. “The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.” Confraternitas 21 (2): 2011. 43-51. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v21i2.14707. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.