Opening January 30, the Museo del Prado will present the most important exhibition on Tintoretto (1518–1594, born Jacopo Robusti) since the one held in the Palazzo Pesaro in Venice in 1937. The exhibition will remain on view through May 13.
"Tintoretto" will include some 70 works by the artist, loaned from the collections of leading European and American museums and institutions. The exhibition is the first monographic one to be devoted to the artist in Spain as well as the first exhibition on Tintoretto of this size and importance since the 1937 exhibition.
Despite being one of the greatest names in the history of painting --he is considered one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance and first became known as Tintoretto (little dyer) because his father was a dyer -- Tintoretto has been the subject of scant attention on the part of museums and institutions. The limited number of exhibitions devoted to the artist can partly be explained by logistical reasons, given that many of his masterpieces are large-format canvases and are still to be found in Venice in the original buildings for which they were painted.
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Tintoretto goes to Spain
