During his lifetime Jacopo Tintoretto was regarded as a remarkably prolific and daring painter even by his fiercest critics such as Giorgio Vasari. In the early seventeenth century, a few years after his death, his name was linked with those of Titian and Paolo Veronese as the three greatest representatives of Venetian painting. Tintoretto shared their use of a new pictorial language characterised by the “bravura” of the brushstroke and a pronounced chiaroscuro, both deployed in the service of a new type of narrative painting. In addition, he went further and created a style that fused the Tuscan with the Venetian, combining Titian’s loose handling with Michelangelo’s draughtsmanship.
The show features around 60 paintings and drawings loaned from European and American museums and institutions and focuses in particular on his work as a painter of religious narratives – the genre in which he produced his greatest paintings.
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