tintoretto

Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto (1518 – 1594)

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Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto A Portrait of a Young Man Venice, 1554 Oil on canvas 121 x 93.3 cm The inscription records that this portrait was painted ‘in the year 1554 in the month of May [or March], in the 22nd year of his age’. Unfortunately, the identity of the young man has been lost.  … Read more

Birth of a Collection

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Masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts Room 1, The National Gallery, London Between the foundation of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in 1932 and before the official opening of the building and its galleries on 26 July, 1939, works acquired by its first Director, Professor Thomas Bodkin, were stored or displayed at … Read more