Tagliaferro, Giorgio (2018) Celebrating the most serene republic. In: Echols, Robert and Ilchmann, Frederick, (eds.) Tintoretto : the artist of Venice at 500, exhibition catalogue. National Gallery of Washington. ISBN 9788831743716

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On May 11, 1574, a fire swept through the east wing of the Palazzo Ducale, the seat of Venice’s government and residence of the doge, destroying the Sala delle Quattro Porte, the Sala del Collegio, and the Sala del Senato. Among the many works of art lost were the allegorical portraits that commemorated the doges who ruled in the sixteenth century. A campaign to rebuild and replace the decoration was launched, but before it was fully under way, an even more devastating blaze on December 20, 1577, consumed the Sala del Maggior Consiglio and Sala dello Scrutinio, the two largest rooms in the palace, located in the south and west wings. Gathering here every week, the Maggior Consiglio—consisting of all the men over age twenty-five who were members of the nobility—met to elect officials and occasionally enact legislation. The decoration of these rooms had included the cycle of doges’ portraits going back to the year 804, narrative paintings of scenes from Venice’s past by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Alvise Vivarini, Pordenone, Titian, Paolo Veronese, and Tintoretto himself, and Guariento’s decaying frescoes depicting The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints and Angels flanked by The Annunciation. The redecoration of the palace was one of the largest decorative campaigns of Renaissance Europe. Lasting until well into the seventeenth century, it involved every major artist in Venice, including Jacopo Tintoretto and his son Domenico, Veronese, Palma il Giovane, Francesco and Leandro Bassano, Antonio Vassilachi (called L’Aliense), Andrea Vicentino, Marco Vecellio, Sante Peranda, and Leonardo Corona.

Item Type:	Book Item
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History of Art
Publisher:	National Gallery of Washington
ISBN:	9788831743716
Book Title:	Tintoretto : the artist of Venice at 500, exhibition catalogue
Editor:	Echols, Robert and Ilchmann, Frederick
Official Date:	2018
Dates:	Date Event 2018 Published 15 February 2018 Accepted
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	26 February 2018
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