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Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
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Guido Reni
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| | This is the central room of the New Hermitage. The immense size, the striking ceiling decoration, the combination of rich red walls and the gleam of gilded frames and furniture, magnificent vases and lighting devices made of coloured stone together create an impression of truly palatial luxury. The display covers a period from the twilight of the great age of the Renaissance to the time when Rome became the school for the entire artistic world. Presented here are large-format works by artists of the Venetian, Roman, Bolognese and Florentine schools from the 16th and 17th centuries. They include Sebastiano del Piombo's Pieta and The Nativity of John the Baptist by Tintoretto, the last great master of the Renaissance, Carlo Maratti's Portrait of Pope Clement IX, Giovanni Biliverti's Tobias Parting from the Angel and Lambert Sustris's landscape composition Jupiter and Io, as well as striking canvases by Guido Reni and Il Guercino, the greatest representatives of the Bolognese Academy in the 17th century. |
