A wonderfully informative and entertaining new study of the painter. The first full-length account of the artists life and work to appear in English for nearly 50 years.
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
Nichols . . . is at pains to point out how far this at once exhilarating and exasperating painter went against the Venetian grain. Nichols persuasively shows how he cultivated poverty, in terms of technique, iconography and professional identity . . . a good book.
The Independent
By relating the pictures to the changes in cinquecento Venice, Nichols identifies the nature of and suggests the reasons for Tintorettos unorthodox style. The many, excellent illustrations in Tintoretto can be admired for their own sake, but the text demands to be closely read.
Sunday Times
Deeply perceptive in interpretation
Brian Sewell, Books of the Year
Evening Standard
[An] excellent book . . . both engaging and most enlightening.
Times Literary Supplement
Much of the best modern scholarship on the subject is incorporated into an argument which is well presented and enriched with many original and intelligent observations.
Burlington Magazine