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St Lawrence, a Christian martyr, was roasted on a gridiron for refusing to give the Roman authorities the Church's money. This study is for the figure of a man carrying faggots for the fire. In the finished painting he is on the lower right-hand side.\r\n\r\n‘Tintoretto’  was the nickname of Jacopo Robusti, whose father was a ‘tintore’ (cloth-dyer).  Unusually for his time, Tintoretto worked out a lot of his ideas directly onto the canvas.  This means that preparatory drawings such as this study are relatively rare - about 130 survive. They are quite roughly and quickly drawn, with almost no drawings of whole compositions. Most show only a single figure or a small group.  The V&A holds 11 of these important drawings (Dyce 235-236, Dyce 239-247). All except one once belonged to the distinguished English portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.","physicalDescription":"Drawing in black chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper depicting a male nude carrying a piece of wood. 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A thirteenth work by Tintoretto in the Dyce Bequest does not appear to have belonged to Reynolds (Lugt, Supplement 419a, Ward Jackson cat. no. 332).  See Ward Jackson, cat. nos. 328-340.  N.B. cat. nos. 328-338 are inscribed with the artist's name in the same 18th century hand.\r\n\r\nThis study is for the man bearing faggots on the right in The Martyrdom of  St Lawrence in Christ Church, Oxford.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Tintoretto, Jacopo; Drawing of a male nude carrying a piece of wood; Executed in black chalk on faded blue paper, squared; Venice; Mid-16th century.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward-Jackson, Peter. <font -U>Italian Drawings, Volume One: 14th-16th Century</font>. London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1979. 275p., cat. no.334, p.159. ill. 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