La Crocifissione di Tintoretto alla Scuola Grande di San Rocco: studio della vicenda conservativa attraverso i documenti

Tintoretto’s Crucifixion in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice is one of the most important paintings of the artist’s career, and one of the most studied of his masterpieces. The Scuola represents today an unicum in the laguna because, in the 16th century, its collection of paintings by Jacopo Robusti remained untouched. The conservation history of this collection as a whole has not received the attention it deserves, nor is there monographic study dealing with that of the Crucifixion. This article presents some of the results from the author’s degree thesis, relating to the actual material composition of the painting, following the chronology of its restorations and relating the data obtained to the state of preservation of the building at the time and to the condition of other paintings by Tintoretto; and in addition, the epistolary correspondence between the Scuola and the Soprintendenze after the unification of Italy is also analysed. This study is based on the results of the research carried out in four different archives in Venice.