Paris museum showcases Venetian artist Tintoret’s skill

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is displaying around thirty paintings and drawings by Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoret, to demonstrate his artistic skill.

The exhibition isn’t a full retrospective because major works like those from the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Italy, cannot be moved. Instead, the museum assembled the collection through loans from museums in France and Italy. The exhibit focuses on both Tintoret’s famous dynamic style and the complex work beneath it.

Though a longer showing with a painting currently in Munich, Germany, would have been welcome, the current selection effectively highlights the artist’s abilities. Tintoret, whose father was a dyer, explaining his nickname “little dyer”, worked during the same period as Michelangelo. The museum could also have included more drawings to fully showcase his skill in that medium, but the exhibition still succeeds in presenting a comprehensive view of his artistry.