BILBAO.-The Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao is exhibiting a work by Tintoretto through June 29. The Museum’s latest Guest Work is a portrait by Jacopo Robusti (Venice 1518/19-1594) better known as Tintoretto, one of the great painters of the Venetian school and one of the Renaissance Masters.
From the collection of the Cerralbo Museum in Madrid, and dated to around 1555, the painting depicts a gentleman, possibly Agostino Doria, a member of one of Genoa’s oldest and most illustrious families. It is a fairly typical Tintoretto portrait, one in which the influence of Titian is clearly discernible. Despite the restrained composition and colour (only the elegant pose and the gold buttons reveal the sitter’s social position), Tintoretto manages to convey great psychological intensity