Product Description

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of the most unorthodox Venetian painter of the sixteenth century, Jacopo Tintoretto. During his long career, Tintoretto increasingly abandoned the traditional values of Renaissance painting, typified by the works of Titian and Michelangelo, to develop his own radical style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #298287 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

About the Author
Tom Nichols is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has contributed to New Interpretations of Venetian Renaissance Painting (1994) and provided the entry on Tintoretto for Macmillan's The Dictionary of Art (1996).

Customer Reviews

best tintoretto book on market
This book is, hands down, the best book on the works of Tintoretto on the market. Tom Nichols is a very well respected and well published art historian in the field and this book lives up to his reputation. It has many beautiful color prints of paintings (along with some black and white) and some very useful and helpful diagrams of the Scuole di San Rocco that show where many of Tintoretto's paintings are. It is probably the most complete, up to date work about any Venetian painter that I have read.

Disappointing Book -- Tintoretto Deserves Better
Nichols' Tintoretto has the makings of a great work. The text presents a wealth of insights into this underappreciated painter. The biggest drawback is the book's small illustrations. Aside from the reproductions of several portraits (i.e. Portrait of Procurator Antonio Cappello, Portrait of Procurator Jacopo Soranzo) and a handful of other works (i.e. St Louis, St George, and the Princess), the plates are disappointingly small. This is particularly problematic because Tintoretto's works in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco were painted on a large scale. It is impossible to appreciate Tintoretto's technique or the details in larger works because the reproductions are so small. Tintoretto deserves better. Unfortunately, this is one of only a handful of available works on the great Venetian master.

Discover Tintoretto
Tintoretto is an artist that is frequently overlooked, even by me, an avid reader and viewer of art. After being overwhelmed by his works in Venice I sought out a book to help me understand him more. This book was very satisfying in that the author analyses not only the painter, but puts him in the context of 16th century Venice. There are few books in English about Tintoretto; this is an excellent one.