Self-Portrait

Gallery 352, European Art 1500-1850, third floor (ARCO Gallery)

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Self-Portrait

c. 1546-1548

Tintoretto (Jacopo di Giovanni Battista Robusti) (Italian (active Venice), 1519–1594)

This dramatically intimate self-portrait announced the arrival of a new talent on the Venetian art scene; Tintoretto painted it when he was just beginning his career. The picture follows the Venetian portraiture tradition of showing the subject's head emerging from a dark background and making the eyes the focus of attention.

Gallery 352, European Art 1500-1850, third floor (ARCO Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Self-Portrait

Date:

c. 1546-1548

Artist:

Tintoretto (Jacopo di Giovanni Battista Robusti) (Italian (active Venice), 1519–1594)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

17 3/4 × 15 inches (45.1 × 38.1 cm) Framed: 27 7/8 × 25 × 2 inches (70.8 × 63.5 × 5.1 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Marion R. Ascoli and the Marion R. and Max Ascoli Fund in honor of Lessing Rosenwald, 1983

Accession Number:

1983-190-1

Geography:

Made in Venice, Italy, Europe

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Gallery 352, European Art 1500-1850, third floor (ARCO Gallery)

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