Volume 41, Number 13 · July 14, 1994
Action Painting in Venice
By Garry Wills
Tintoretto: Tutte le opere Volumes 1 and 2: Le opere sacre e profane Volume 3: I ritratti
by Rodolfo Pallucchini, by Paola Rossi
Electa, 1000 pp., L 400,000
Vite dei Tintoretto
by Carlo Ridolfi, edited by Antonio Manno
Filippi Editore, 173 pp., L 40,000
Tintoretto: La Scuola Grande di San Rocco
by Giandomenico Romanelli
Electa, 300 pp., L 150,000
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise, édition revue et corrigée 14, 1993
catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9-June, by Michel Laclotte
Réunion des Museés Nationaux, 748 pp., FF 390
Tintoretto: Sacre rappresentazioni nelle chiese di Venezia 31, 1994
catalog of the exhibition at San Bartolomeo, Venice, January 15-May
Edizioni delle Grafiche Veneziane, unpaged pp., L 40,000
Jacopo Tintoretto: Ritratti March 25-July 10, 1994
catalog of the exhibition at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice,, by Paola Rossi
Electa, 176 pp., L 65,000
Jacopo Tintoretto e i suoi incisori 15-July 10, 1994,
catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, April
Electa, 160 pp., L 50,000
Capolavori della pittura veneta dal Castello di Praga 20-September 21, 1994
catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, March
Electa, 97 pp., L 50,000
Venice is trying to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Tintoretto's death, but the artist has not made this an easy task. What does one do? Bring more of his paintings into town?That is, truly, bringing coals to Newcastle. Shift the paintings around, to see them in a new way?But his is site-specific art in the fullest sense—which tells not only against changes in the Venetian setting but against trying to memorialize him outside his chosen arena. Tintoretto's dive-bombing angels are as obtrusive a presence inside Venetian churches as are the strafing pigeons outside in the Piazza. Sartre wrote of the painter:
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