Tintoretto, Susanna and the Elders, Oil on canvas, 58 x 116 cm. c. 1552-55 (?), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Tintoretto, The Lavatory, Oil on canvas, 210 x 533 cm. 1548-49. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Tintoretto, The Last Supper, Oil on canvas, 148.8 x 297.3 cm. c. 1550. Madrid, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

MADRID, SPAIN.- This January, the Museo del Prado will be presenting the most important exhibition on the artist since the one held in the Palazzo Pesaro in Venice in 1937: TINTORETTO, on view 30 January – 13 May 2007. The exhibition Tintoretto –sponsored by the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid- will include around 70 works by the artist loaned from the collections of leading European and American museums and institutions. The exhibition is the first monographic one to be devoted to the artist in Spain as well as the first exhibition on Tintoretto of this size and importance since the one held in Venice seventy years ago. The Prado’s intention is to offer a rigorous and comprehensive survey of the artist’s long career and is itself the fruit of a lengthy and exhaustive research project which will be reflected in the accompanying catalogue. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)