The 16th Century in Veneto. Paintings by Venetian artists from the collection of the State Hermitage
6 September 2001 - 9 December 2001

On 6 September 2001, a large exhibition of 16th-century Venetian-school paintings from the Hermitage collection opened in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). It features forty works from the Hermitage collection, including such masterpieces of the museum’s collection as Giorgione’s Madonna and Child in a Landscape, Capriolo’s Self-Portrait, Titian’s Portrait of a Young Lady in a Fur Coat, and Veronese’s Betrothal of St Catherine. Many of the paintings are being displayed abroad for the first time and were specially restored during the preparations for the exhibition. Now those canvases - Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Lorenzo Lotto, a Sacra Conversazione (Madonna and Child with Saints) by Bonifacio Veronese, St George by Jacopo Tintoretto and a male portrait, possibly of Francesco Bassano, by Domenico Tintoretto - will take a worthy place among the Hermitage’s masterpieces. Ten of the forty canvases on display were produced in the Bassano studio, by its head, Jacopo Bassano, and his sons Francesco and Leandro.

Sacra Conversazione
Bonifacio Veronese
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Lorenzo Lotto
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St George
Jacopo Tintoretto
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Male Portrait (Francesco Bassano?)
Domenico Tintoretto
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