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The Form of Color from Tintoretto to Canaletto: National Gallery of Georgia





From 27 September to 20 November 2019, the Georgian National Museum and the Embassy of Italy in Georgia present the exhibition "The form of color from Tintoretto to Canaletto" on loan from Trieste's National Gallery of Ancient Art. 

In Trieste, with trade and commerce around the ‘free port’ established three hundred years ago in 1719, came the interest in art collection. It focused initially on European art, and later included ancient art. The Trieste National Gallery of Ancient Art was inaugurated in 1957. This exhibition promotes the works of the gallery with a new interpretation, providing the history of Italian art through the ‘lens of the main art that developed in Northern Italy between the 16th-18thcenturies.’

The Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, part of the Georgian National Museum group, is displaying three centuries of Italian painting – from the late Renaissance to the Rococo.

There are 55 artworks of Tintoretto, Guerchino, Bernando Strozzi, Antonio Canaletto, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and other painters from the major painting schools of Northern Italy from the 16th-18thcenturies, such as the Giuseppe Maria Crespi (from Bologna); Giovanni Battista Paggi, Gioacchino Assereto, and Giovanni Francesco Castiglione (from Genoa); Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli and Pier Francesco Cittadini (from Lombardy); and Bonifacio de' Pitati, Carlo Caliari, Francesco Maffei, and Nicola Grassi (from Veneto).
The exhibition showcases a broad range of styles and the main genres of the era: portrait, landscape, and still-life. Apart from historical, allegorical-religious and mythological paintings, there are also sketches of Venice by Antonio Canaletto, and painting by Andrea Locatelli, Daniel Seiter, Johann Heinrich Schoenfeld, Peter Paul Rubens, Lorenzo Lippi, and Domenico Robusti.
The exhibition "The Form of Color from Tintoretto to Canaletto" is part of the "Vivere ALL'italiana" program. Exhibitions launched in Georgia within the scope of the program have already attracted more than 150,000 visitors. 
The program of Italian Art exhibitions in Georgia is the result of close cooperation between Italy and Georgia. From Italy: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and The Embassy of Italy in Tbilisi.  From Georgia: The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and the Georgian National Museum. The Italian company Global Project Consulting is also supporting the exhibition.

Dorothea and Catherine, circa 1540-1550

Dorothea and Catherine, circa 1540-1550

Tintoretto, Portrait of a Man, circa 1550
Giovanni Francesco Castiglione, Shepherd Playing the Bagpipe, 17th century

Johann Heinrich Schoenfeld, The Taste, 17th century

Johann Heinrich Schoenfeld, The Smell, 17th century

Pier Francesco Cittadini, Candied and Fresh Fruit, 17th century

Peter Paul Rubens, Madonna and Child Enthroned, Flanked by Angels, 17th century
Pietro Muttoni, Amorous Scene, 17th century

Saint Francis and the Angel, 17th century

Andrea Locatelli, View of the Arch of Titus, early 18th century

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Sorrows at the Foot of the Cross, mid-18th century



Antonio Canaletto, View of Rome with the Church of San Gregorio Al Celio





MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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