Jacopo Robusti TINTORETTO (1518 - 1594). Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1546 - 1548)

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Cristo e l´Adultera)
(1546 – 1548). Oil on canvas, 119 x 168 cm.
Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini
Tintoretto alias Jacopo Comin
(Venice, September 29th 1518- May 31th 1594)
was an Italian painter, one of the most representative of Venetian School and probably the last most important painter of the Italian Renaissance.
Alias “ Tintoretto” become from his father’s job. In his youth he was also called Jacopo Robusti because his father strongly defended the Padua’s gate by Imperial soldiers. The real name Comin had been discovered recently by Miguel Falomir, the curator of Prado in Madrid, and it was published in the occasion of the Tintoretto exhibition at Prado. For his passion in his painting he was called “The Furious” and his dramatic use of the prospective and light let him become the precursor of the Baroque Art.
The artwork, Cristo e L’Adultera, was recognized by Adolfo Venturi in the Prince Mario Chigi Collection, and was donated to the State in the 1902. Probably the painting was in the Collection from 1666, coming from Paolo Serra Collection. The impressive pictorial erudition become from the prospective and above all in floor drawings, and circular motion of the scene.