Volume 54, Number 7 · April 26, 2007
Brush with Genius
By Andrew Butterfield
Tintoretto
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir
an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, January 30–May 13, 2007.
Museo Nacional del Prado/Ediciones El Viso, 472 pp., €48.00; €35.00 (paper)
The paintings of Jacopo Tintoretto come as a revelation. According to standard opinion Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael were the supreme artists of the sixteenth century; yet often during the last four hundred years, viewers have gazed in awe and surprise at works by Tintoretto, and wondered if he might be the greatest painter of all. Thus John Ruskin during his first visit to Venice wrote:
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