“In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/1519–1594), three institutions—the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia; and the Gallerie dell’Accademia—organized a major exhibition on the Venetian master. Following its term at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice… Read More
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Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at The Frick Collection, February 21 – June 2, 2019
“In Renaissance Italy, one of the aims of portraiture was to make the absent seem present through naturalistic representation of the sitter. This notion—that art can capture an individual exactly as he or she appears—is exemplified in the work of Giovanni Battista Moroni. The artist… Read More
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice at The Morgan Library & Museum, October 12, 2018 – January 6, 2019
“The dramatic canvases of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/1519–1594), with their muscular, expressive bodies, are some of the most distinctive of the Italian Renaissance. His drawings, however, have received less attention as a distinctive category in his oeuvre. Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice is the first exhibition since… Read More
Le dame dei Pollaiolo. Una bottega fiorentina del Rinascimento (The Ladies of Pollaiolo. A Florentine Workshop of the Renaissance) at Museo Poldi Pezzoli, November 7, 2014 – February 16, 2015
Images courtesy Museo Poldi Pezzoli
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