Rosand Library & Study Center Webinar
 
Exploring Tintoretto’s Crucifixion: A New Interactive Website
 
Presented by Frederick Ilchman and Gabriele Matino
 
Join Save Venice for the virtual launch of a new website dedicated to Tintoretto’s Crucifixion at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
 
This innovative platform explores Save Venice’s 2023-2025 conservation of the monumental canvas and the discoveries brought to light during treatment. Designed for scholars, students, and art enthusiasts alike, users can appreciate and experience Tintoretto’s masterpiece like never before.
 
Thanks to advanced digital photography and diagnostic imaging, users can trace how Tintoretto constructed his composition: mapping and transferring sketches, shaping its many figures, and revising elements as the work evolved. What is normally hidden becomes visible, revealing an artist thinking, adjusting, and inventing in real time.
 
The site also features a series of close-up galleries that follow Tintoretto’s own vantage point during the act of creation, offering a rare chance to study his brushwork in extraordinary detail. Stroke by stroke, these images show how he sculpted muscular, twisting bodies, animated faces with striking immediacy, and brought to life the many figures who bear witness to the scene.
 
The conservation of Tintoretto’s Crucifixion was made possible with the generous support of Arnold M. Bernstein. This dedicated website was published with the generous support of an anonymous donor in honor of Arnold M. Bernstein.
 
Open to all
 
12:00 pm ET | 9:00 am PT | 5:00 pm UK | 6:00 pm Venice