DRAWING IN TINTORETTOS VENICE

Jacopo Tintoretto (15181594) was among the most distinctive artists of the Italian Renaissance. Yet, although his bold paintings ar e immediately recognizable, his drawings remain unfamiliar even to many scholars. Drawing in Tintorettos Venice offers a complete o verview of Tintoretto as a draftsman. It begins with a look at drawings by Tintorettos precedents and contemporaries, a discussion intended to illuminate Tintorettos sources as well as his originality, and also to explore the historiographical and critical quest ions that hav...[Read more]