I will never forget Gabriel, one night at a raucous meeting of painters on the Lower East Side, speaking about a gentle little composition with a few figures in a rococo interior by the eighteenth - century
Venetian figure painter Longhi.
Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice will be the first exhibition since 1956 to explore the drawing practice of this major
figure of the
Venetian Renaissance and will offer an entirely new perspective on Tintoretto's evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his influence on a generation of
painters in northern Italy.