Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice, G. Matino, C. Klestinec eds

Those familiar with Tintoretto’s deep religious devotion, as well as with his attentive research on the human body, may be surprised by the almost complete absence of the artist from the Art, faith and medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice exhibition held at the Scuola Grande di San Marco . It is Venice itself, the city in which Tintoretto displayed his entrepreneurial spirit, that is the focus of the exhibition. In those days, Venice was the capital of medical publishing. Its churches and building...