Tintoretto at 500: from Venice to Washington

The symposium “Tintoretto at 500: From Venice to Washington” is being organized in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo

Tintoretto, in conjunction with the major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice,” and the complementary exhibitions, “Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice” and “Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto.”

Following its opening at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, in September 2018, the exhibition “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice” will be on view at the National Gallery of Art—its only other venue—from March 24 through July 7, 2019. As the first retrospective of the artist in North America, it will include many significant international loans traveling to the U.S. for the first time and feature nearly 50 paintings and more than a dozen works on paper spanning the artist’s entire career and ranging from regal portraits of Venetian aristocracy to religious and mythological narrative scenes. The exhibit is organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special collaboration of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice.

The symposium “Tintoretto at 500: From Venice to Washington” will cover key topics of Tintoretto’s world and will include presentations by Frederick Ilchman and Robert Echols, guest co-curators at the National Gallery of Art, and by the Directors and representatives of the main Italian lenders and collaborating institutions to the exhibit.

For more info, please email culturale.washington@esteri.it

Street parking is very limited. Please, consider taking Uber or Lyft to the Embassy.

PROGRAM

2:30 – 3:00 Guest Check-in

3:00 – 3:10 Welcome Remarks

Armando Varricchio 
Ambassador of Italy to the United States

3:10 – 4:30 Session I 
Frederick Ilchman, Guest co-curator at the National Gallery of Art
“Introduction: From Venice to Washington”

Paola Marini, Former Director at Gallerie dell’Accademia 
“Who was Jacopo Tintoretto?”

Gianpaolo Scarante, President at Ateneo Veneto 
Camillo Tonini, Art Collection Curator at Ateneo Veneto 
“Tintoretto’s Venice: Historical and Social Background”

Demetrio Sonaglioni, Deputy Director at Scuola Grande di San Rocco 
Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel, Professor of Venetian Art History at Wake Forest University in Venice 
“Tintoretto at San Rocco”

4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Break

5:00 – 6:00 Session II 
Leslie Contarini, Venice Programs Director at Save Venice 
“Insights from Recent Conservation Treatments”

Gabriella Belli, Director at Musei Civici di Venezia 
“Tintoretto as a Modern Artist”

Robert Echols, Guest co-curator at the National Gallery of Art 
“Tintoretto’s American Debut”

6:00 – 7:00 Reception