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Gallerie dell”Accademia
The Young Tintoretto
On
the 500th anniversary of
the birth of Jacopo Robusti, known
as Tintoretto, two great
exhibitions are dedicated to him - The
Young Tintoretto - Gallerie dell’Accademia - and - Tintoretto
– Doge’s Palace, both until January 6. The Young Tintoretto, curated by Roberta Battaglia, Paola Marini, and Vittoria Romani, at the Gallerie
dell’Accademia, there are on show 60 works which range over the first decade of the Venetian painter’s activity, from 1538,
the year in which the independent activity of Jacopo Robusti in San Cassiano was first noted, to 1548,
the date of the clamorous success of his first public-commissioned work, Il Miracolo dello Schiavo, painted for
the Scuola Grande di San Marco, and
today the pride of the Gallerie
dell’Accademia.
Jacopo Robusti, known as
Tintoretto - Miracolo dello Schiavo
1548
Gallerie dell”Accademia
The Young Tintoretto
The exciting
itinerary reconstructs the extraordinary period of stimuli and experimentation
thanks to which Tintoretto deeply
renewed Venetian painting, in a
period of great changes. The show brings together 26 exceptional paintings by
Tintoretto, which both promote the works in the museum’s permanent collection,
now seen in a new perspective, and shows them in the context with loans from
the most important public and private institutions in the world.
Jacopo Robusti, known as
Tintoretto – Estate – 1546-1548c.
Curators
Vittoria Romani, Paola Marini and Roberta Battaglia
Gallerie dell"Accademia
The Young Tintoretto
In chronological order, and
divided into four sections, the itinerary investigates the still much-debated
period of Tintoretto’s training, not
easily attributable to a particular workshop or person, by relating him to the Venetian artistic and cultural context
of the 1530s and 1540s. In this way to clarified how Jacopo Robusti acquired and transformed his models in order to
develop a dramatic and revolutionary style, through hints derived from Titian, Pordenone, Bonifacio de’ Pitati,
Paris Bordon, Francesco Salviati, Giorgio Vasari, and Jacopo Sansovino, all present in the show with significant works.
Furthermore are exhibited paintings and sculptures by artists of Tintoretto’s
generation who worked in the same milieu, among whom Andrea Schiavone, Giuseppe
Porta Salviati, Lambert Sustrise,
and Bartolomeo Ammannati.
Giorgio Vasari – La Pazienza –
1542
Giorgio Vasari – La Giustizia – 1942
Jacopo Robusti, known as
Tintoretto
Disputa di Gesu nel Tempio - 1545-1546
Bartolomeo Ammannati – Sapienza – 1545
Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis – known as Pordenone
San Martino and San Cristoforo – 1527-1528c.
Il Giovane Tintoretto
The
exhibition is accompanied by an important volume, Il Giovane Tintoretto, published by Marsilio Electa, with essays by Robert Echolls and Frederick
Ilchman, Vittoria Romani, Roberta Battaglia, Paola Marini, Paolo Procaccioli, and Luciano Pezzolo.