Venice, Tintoretto on display at Palazzo Grimani to compare with his son Domenico

In Venice, the Museum of Palazzo Grimani, is hosting the exhibition dossier Tintoretto and Giovanni Grimani portraits in comparison dedicated to the portraiture of Giovanni Grimani, patriarch of Aquileia, curated by Toto Bergamo Rossi, Daniele Ferrara and Valeria Finocchi, and organized together with Venetian Heritage and the Colnaghi antiquarian gallery. The exhibition, scheduled to run from April 17 to September 8, 2024, is part of the journey to enhance and promote the history and collections of the palace undertaken starting in 2019 with the refurbishment of the Tribuna Grimani and the Sala del Doge thanks to the collaboration between the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate and Venetian Heritage.

On the occasion of this special exhibition, the Portrait of Giovanni Grimani attributed to Domenico Tintoretto, already in the museum’s collections thanks to the acquisition and donation of the same by Venetian Heritage, is confronted with two other paintings by the hand of his father Jacopo Tintoretto, testifying to the iconographic development of the effigy of the Venetian prelate in a succession spanning several decades between the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th.

Exceptional loaned is a small oil on panel painting depicting the Portrait of Patriarch Giovanni Grimani, recently rediscovered in a private collection by the Colnaghi Gallery and shown to the public for the first time in this exhibition. The panel was made by Jacopo Tintoretto probably as a model for the execution of two of the artist’s masterpieces: the Portrait of Patriarch Giovanni G rimani owned by the Schorr Collection, which is on display in the exhibition, and the well-known Portrait of Giovanni Grimani kept at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated volume, published by Marsilio Arte, which for the occasion will provide an up-to-date reading of the ways in which the image of the Venetian prelate came to be defined through his portrait, addressing biographical events, the historical-political context, iconographic and iconological issues and the commissioning relationship with Tintoretto.

The exhibition project, promoted, organized and financed by the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate, Venetian Heritage and Colnaghi, and is intended to represent a new example of public-private collaboration that together contribute to the enhancement and enjoyment of cultural heritage.

Venice, Tintoretto on display at Palazzo Grimani to compare with his son Domenico

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