For the Scuola della Trinità, Tintoretto painted four or five pictures depicting subjects taken from the Book of Genesis, having reference to the biblical creation of the world; of which two are preserved untouched, and now hang on either side of Titian's Assumption in the Academy at Venice.

[2] These are The Death of Abel and Adam and Eve, of which William Roscoe Osler writes:The concentration of effect … is marvellous without being violent.

The influence of the antique sculptures is apparent in the figures, accompanied with a great knowledge of nature, and of the build of the human form.

[4]The depiction of Cain killing Abel has been admired for its energy and violence, as Evelyn March Phillipps observes: The execution is so charged with emotion, that subject and technique are inseparable, and it becomes the most vehement and terrible piece of work he ever produced.

The contrast is keen between the young elastic Abel, with balance lost, and leg and arm thrown out in a desperate effort to recover equilibrium, and the powerful, muscular Cain, vibrating with concentrated hate and determined purpose.