Restored in 2003 with funding from Mara and Charles Robinson in honor of Prof. W. R. Rearick.

This portrait represents the young Venetian patrician Marco Pasqualigo during his service as a government official, or camerlengo, in the city of Brescia on the mainland in the Veneto. The inscription at the top of the painting, made legible after the recent restoration, clarifies Pasqualigo’s role and indicates that the date of the painting is 1588.

Save Venice Board member Prof. W. R. Rearick attributed the painting to Domenico Tintoretto because of the portrait’s high pictorial quality. At this time Domenico’s father, Jacopo, was at work on a cycle of paintings for the ducal court in Mantua, and he delegated much of the work of the studio to his son. The twenty-eight-year-old Domenico produced some of his best paintings during this period, and this handsome portrait is fresh, assured, and witty, and clearly conceived in a stylistic vein different from that of his father.

This portrait is part of the Correr Museum painting repository, and is one of a series of works that were brought forth for restoration at the suggestion of Prof. Rearick in the hope that conservation efforts would encourage renewed study.

The work was restored by conservator Maria Chiara Ceriotti of the ARKE restoration firm, with the guidance of project director Attilia Dorigato of the Correr Museum.

For select projects, conservation dossiers in Italian containing limited textual and photographic documentation may be available for consultation by appointment at the Venice office of Save Venice and the Rosand Library & Study Center. For inquiries, please contact us at venice@savevenice.org.

Domenico Tintoretto (1560–1635) [attr.]
Portrait of Marco Pasqualigo
1588, oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm

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Attilia Dorigato, “Correr Museum Paintings Restored in Honor of Professor W. R. Rearick” (2004)