New forms, new postures, new groupings flowed from his brush in exhaustless multitude.
It is necessary to go to Venice to see Tintoret's most famous works, still remaining upon the walls of the churches and buildings for which they were painted, or in which they have been brought together.

But the National Gallery is fortunate in possessing one relatively small canvas of his which shows some of his finest qualities.

The subject of St.George slaying the dragon was not a new one.

It had been painted by Raphael and by several of the earlier Venetian painters, but Tintoret's treatment of it was all his own.

In the earlier pictures, the princess, for whose sake St.George fights the dragon, was a little figure in the background fleeing in terror.