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Virtual Spotlight Tour: Unlocking the Identity of Tintoretto’s Unidentified Sitter

Friday, April 19, 2024 12:30–1:30 PM
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Free; limited availability, advance registration is required.

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Join Docents for a session of close looking at an intriguing portrait that hangs in Mr. Morgan’s office. It is the portrait of a man made in Venice in 1600. Not much more is known than that. We will explore the process an art historian might engage in to discover just who and what this portrait is about.

Workshop of Domenico Tintoretto
1560–1635
Venice ca. 1600
Oil on canvas.
50 x 40 inches (1270 x 1016 mm)
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1929.