TINTORETTO: ARTIST OF RENAISSANCE VENICE.

ECHOLS, Robert, Frederick Ilchman [Eds.].

ISBN 10: 0300230400 / ISBN 13: 9780300230406

Published by National Gallery Of Art, Washington, 2018

4to. pp: xvii, 293. First edition. Original publisher's deep blue cloth boards with debossed lettering at front and gilt lettering at spine in original publisher's colour-illustrated dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in colour. Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions in Venice (September 2018 - January 2019) and Washington (March - July 2019). This is a large and heavy item and may require additional cost to post.ISBN: 9780300230406 Dust jacket shows very light signs of shelfwear around the edges. Small, 1 cm long crease to front cover. Otherwise tight and bright and internally perfectly clean copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C71310

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)

About the Author:

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: TINTORETTO: ARTIST OF RENAISSANCE VENICE.
Publisher: National Gallery Of Art, Washington
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition