Pauwels Franck, known in Italy as Paolo Fiammingo, is thought to have been a native of Antwerp born around 1540. Following a period in Florence where he may have been involved in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I in the Palazzo Vecchio, he moved to Venice during the 1570s where he was able to establish himself within the highly competitive Venetian art world. His Saint Jerome in the church in Mirano dates to about 1578 and at almost exactly this time he began collaborating with Jacopo Tintoretto on the landscape passages in the painting of Saint Roche in the Desert for church of San Rocco. Subsequently this collaboration with Tintoretto led him to supply landscapes for many of the celebrated master’s paintings,...