Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300230400 ISBN 13 : 9780300230406

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Published on the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth, this unprecedented publication celebrates one of Renaissance Italy’s greatest painters

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 or 1519–1594) was known for the remarkable energy of his work. His contemporary Giorgio Vasari described him as the “most extraordinary brain that painting has ever produced.” Considered to be one of the three great painters of 16th-century Venice, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto is admired for his dramatic treatments of sacred and secular narrative subjects and his insightful portraits of the Venetian aristocracy. His bold and expressive brushwork, which made his paintings seem unfinished to his contemporaries, is now recognized as a key step in the development of oil-on-canvas painting.
 
This lavishly illustrated study, published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, features more than forty of Tintoretto’s paintings, including many large-scale pieces that convey the breadth and power of his narrative works, along with a sample of his finest drawings. An international group of scholars led by Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman explores Tintoretto’s artistic activity and situates his life and work in the context of his contemporaries’ work and of the Renaissance in Italy, providing a fundamental point of reference for modern scholarship and an essential introduction to the artist’s career and oeuvre.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Exhibition Schedule:

Palazzo Ducale, Venice
(09/07/18–01/06/19)

National Gallery of Art
(03/10/19–07/07/19)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Echols is an independent scholar and curator who has worked on exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Prado, Madrid; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frederick Ilchman is chair of Art of Europe and the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300230400
• ISBN 13: 9780300230406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Echols Robert, Ilchman Frederick
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible