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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2019>Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice

# Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice

March 24 – June 9, 2019West Building, Ground Floor, West Inner Tier Galleries

Tintoretto(?) and Workshop*Study of Michelangelo's Samson and the Philistines (recto and verso)*, c. 1560–1570charcoal and black chalk with white opaque watercolor on blue paperThe Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Thaw Collection

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

 The first exhibition to focus specifically on Tintoretto’s work as a draftsman, *Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice* provides new ideas about his evolution as a draftsman, about the dating and function of the so-called sculpture drawings, and about Tintoretto’s place in the Venetian tradition.

The exhibition begins with drawings by Tintoretto’s predecessors and contemporaries, including Titian, Veronese, and Jacopo Bassano, to show his sources as well as his individuality. Tintoretto’s distinctive figure drawings are the heart of the show, which includes both preparatory drawings and a group of his studies after sculptures by Michelangelo and others that document the teaching practice in Tintoretto’s workshop. The exhibition also considers artists whose drawing styles were influenced by Tintoretto’s, particularly his son Domenico Tintoretto and Palma Giovane. A final section of the exhibition considers an interesting group of drawings—connected with Tintoretto and his followers—that has recently been proposed as the work of the young El Greco, dating from his time in Venice.

An accompanying catalog is written by John Marciari, the Charles W. Engelhard Curator and head of the department of drawings and prints at the Morgan Library & Museum. The exhibition is coordinated in Washington by Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art.

**Organization:***Organized by the Morgan Library & Museum in association with the National Gallery of Art*

**Passes:** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Attendance:** 34,531

**Catalog:**Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice. By John Marciari. New York: Morgan Library and Museum, 2018.

**Other venues:** The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 12, 2018–January 6, 2019

                    - Tintoretto, Jacopo
                    - Italian , 1518 - 1594

Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance VeniceMarch 24 – July 7, 2019West Building, Main Floor

Venetian Prints in the Time of TintorettoMarch 24 – June 9, 2019West Building, Ground Floor

                    - Titian
                    - Italian , 1490 - 1576
                    - Veronese
                    - Italian , 1528 - 1588
                    - Bassano, Jacopo
                    - Italian , 1510 - 1592
                    - Michelangelo
                    - Italian , 1475 - 1564
                    - Tintoretto, Domenico
                    - Italian , 1560 - 1635
                    - Palma il Giovane, Jacopo
                    - Italian , 1548 - 1628
                    - El Greco
                    - Greek , 1541 - 1614

Press Materials

                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in Venice
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 4—In Situ: Tintoretto in Venice
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early Work
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco 
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 2—Tintoretto: The Early Work
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 1—Tintoretto in Context: Framing Tintoretto: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto Lecture Series, Part 3—Tintoretto Central: The Scuola Grande di San Rocco 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 25, 2019, (74:29 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    May 21, 2019, (66:00 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice 
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    May 21, 2019, (66:00 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice Promo
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    March 24, 2019, (00:15 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Tintoretto 500
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    March 19, 2019, (95:25 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Tintoretto 500
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    March 19, 2019, (28:38 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto: Legends of Saint Mark, Scuola Grande di San Marco
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    February 26, 2019, (7:18 minutes)                                
                  - Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    February 26, 2019, (18:44 minutes)                                

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