Word: tintoretto
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Next in importance is an original Venetian painting in oils, characteristic of the work of Tintoretto. It is a protrait of a procurator of St. Mark's, in his senatorial robes...
Among the recent acquisitions of the Fogg Museum are three original paintings which were presented by Mr. Forbes. One of them is a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, the subject of which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection...
...paintings are: A Florentine Tabernacle, a really fine work in the time of the close of the 15th century, a portrait of a Procurator of St. Mark having the characteristics of the work of Tintoretto, A Madonna and child with saints by Benvenuto di Giovanni (Del Guasta), a Vienese painter of the 15th century, and an Adorazione of the school of Ferrara; perhaps by Lorenzo Costa...
...north wall of the main upper gallery the photographs from portraits by Dutch and Flemish masters have been replaced by another series after portraits, and ideal heads, by the Venetian masters: Bellini, Giorzione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Among these are portraits of himself by each master, and others of various historical personages...
...Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...