Exhibition Dates: | October 16, 2018–October 1, 2020 |
Exhibition Location: |
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings will
focus on the small-scale, informal portraiture of Venetian painter
Jacopo Tintoretto in celebration of the 500th anniversary of his birth.
Jacopo Tintoretto was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the
sixteenth century, renowned for his monumental narrative scenes and his
insightful portraits of patricians and citizens. In celebration of the
five hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, this exhibition
explores an innovative and little-studied aspect of Tintoretto's
portraiture: small-scale, informal portrait heads characterized by
immediacy, intense observation, and startling modernity. These works
capture both the appearance and the spirit of the sitter, and are
painted with the artist's famous prestezza, or quickness.
The exhibition brings together for the first time approximately ten portrait studies from European and American museums and private collections, drawing them into a larger discussion of the artist's portraiture and approach to painting. The exhibition also highlights significant facets of artistic practice in the Tintoretto workshop, in particular the dynamic relationship between Jacopo and his son Domenico, through a series of figural drawings
and a painting in The Met collection, The Finding of Moses.
The exhibition brings together for the first time approximately ten portrait studies from European and American museums and private collections, drawing them into a larger discussion of the artist's portraiture and approach to painting. The exhibition also highlights significant facets of artistic practice in the Tintoretto workshop, in particular the dynamic relationship between Jacopo and his son Domenico, through a series of figural drawings
and a painting in The Met collection, The Finding of Moses.
Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
is organized by Andrea Bayer, The Met's interim Deputy Director for
Collections and Administration and Jayne Wrightsman Curator in the
Department of European Paintings, and Alison Manges Nogueira, Associate
Curator in The Robert Lehman Collection.