Éternel Tintoret
Auteur(s) : Collectif
Exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 11 September 2026 – 24 January 2027
Jacomo Robusti (1518/19–1594), nicknamed ‘Tintoretto’ in reference to his father’s trade as a dyer, established himself as one of the leading figures in 16th-century painting. He spent his entire life in Venice, where his ambition found fertile ground.
He made his mark as early as the late 1540s with prestigious commissions such as The Miracle of the Slave (1548). With the support of a large workshop, he dominated the market for large-scale decorative cycles intended for the city’s institutions, such as the Doge’s Palace and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, during the second half of the century. A complex and unclassifiable artist, Tintoretto developed a body of work that is as admired as it is debated, characterised by daring compositions, dizzying perspectives, spectacular lighting effects and the liveliness of his brushwork – the famous ‘prestezza’.
This catalogue of the first exhibition in France dedicated to Tintoretto’s entire career reveals the full modernity of his art. It brings together some forty paintings and drawings from public and private collections in France, Italy and internationally.
