About the Artwork
The Dreams of Men
mid-16th century
Tintoretto
1519-1594
Italian
Venetian
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 149 inches × 85 3/4 inches (3 m 78.5 cm × 217.8 cm) Framed (approx, irreg): 156 3/4 × 95 inches (3 m 98.1 cm × 241.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
23.11
Public Domain
Markings
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Provenance
until at least 1648, Palazzo Barbo a San Panteleone/Casa Barbo, near the church of San Pantaleon (Venice, Italy) [probably painted for the Barbo family]. by 1921, dealer, Steinmeyer, Lucerne Fine Arts (Lucerne, Switzerland)
1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ridolfi, Carlo. Delle Maraviglie dell'Arte: overo le vite de gl’illustri pittori Veneti, e dello stato. Venice, 1648, p. 46. [see 1924 Hadeln edition, vol. 2: pp. 55, 312]
Bercken, Erich von der and August L. Mayer. Jacopo Tintoretto, vol. 1. Munich, 1923, pp. 268, 270, n. 34. [as on the art market in Lucern, 1921]
Von Hadeln, Detlev Baron. "Two Works by Tintoretto in the Detroit Museum." Art in America 12, no. 1 (December 1923): 32–38, pp. 32–38, fig. 2 (ill.).
Booth, Ralph H., William J. Gray, Albert Kahn, Henry G. Stevens, and Clyde H. Burroughs. “Report of the Arts Commission for the Year 1923.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 5, no. 4/5 (January-February 1924): 26-40, pp. 27, 28, 32 (ill.).
Siple, Ella S. “The Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 50, no. 288 (March 1927): 164-165, p. 165.
Burroughs, Clyde H. “The New Home of the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The American Magazine of Art, 18, no. 10 (October 1927): 544-554, p. 552.
Heil, Walter and Clyde H. Burroughs. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1930, unpaginated, no. 225 (ill.).
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places. Oxford, 1932, p. 558. [as "Allegorical Composition" by in great part Tintoretto]
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 480. [as "Allegorical Composition" by in great part Tintoretto]
Robinson, Francis. “Detroit Looks Back on 20 Years: Retrospective Record on an Anniversary.” ARTnews 38-39 (1940): 18-21, p. 21.
Bercken, Erich von der. Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto. Munich, 1942, pp. 107-108, pl. 132 (ill.). [dates picture to ca. 1565-75]
Automobile Club of Michigan. Michigan Living: Motor News, 25-26 (February 1943): 8, 22-23, p. 8.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Catalogue of Paintings, The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, pp. 132–133.
Tietze. Hans. Tintoretto: His Paintings and Drawings. London, 1948, p. 349, no. 225, fig. 166 (ill.).
Richardson, Edgar Preston. “The Magdalen in the Wilderness by Jacopo Tintoretto.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 28, no. 4 (1948-1949): 82-86, pp. 82, 83, 85.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 69.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: The Venetian School. Vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 171. [as largely by Tintoretto]
Wescher, Paul. "I ritratti del Doge Girolamo Priuli di Jacopo Tintoretto." Arte veneta 11 (1957): 205–207, p. 207.
Inaugural Exhibition. Chrysler Art Museum. Provincetown, 1958, p. 34.
Manning, Bertina Suida. "Two 'Seasons' by Jacopo Tintoretto." In Studies in the History of Art, Dedicated to William E. Suida on his Eightieth Birthday. London, 1959, p. 257.
Manning, B.S. "Two 'seasons' by Jacopo Tintoretto." Arte Veneta, 16 (1962): p. 54.
A Loan Exhibition of Venetian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century. Exh. cat., Finch College Museum of Art. New York, 1963, unpaginated. [see cat. 24]
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June, 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 107.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966 p. 90 (ill.).
Clayton, Wallace E. The Growth of a Great Art Museum: An Informal History of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 44.
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Exh. cat., Norfolk Museum of Arts and Science. Norfolk, 1967, p. 16. [see cat. 11]
Schulz, Juergen. Venetian Painting Ceilings of the Renaissance. Berkeley, 1968, pp. 30, 117-118, no. 47, pl. 80 (ill.). [dated mid-1550s]
Bernari, Carlo and Pierluigi de Vecchi. L'opera completa del Tintoretto. Milan, 1970, p. 107, no. 166 (ill.). [dated ca. 1565–1566]
Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 199. [as "Unknown Allegory"]
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, vol. 3. London, 1973, p. 51. [see cat. K2170, "References"]
Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Exh. cat., Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Tennessee Fine Arts Center. Norfolk, 1977. [see cat. 1 – Allegorical Figure of Spring]
Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America. New York, 1979, pp. 261, 263 (ill.).
Pallucchini, Rodolfo and Paola Rossi. Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane. Milan, 1982, vol. 1: pp. 79, 199–200, no. 328; p. 261; vol. 2: p. 502, fig. 425 (ill.).
Caranfa, Angelo. Proust: The Creative Silence. Lewisburg, 1990, p. 32 (ill.)
Harrison, Jefferson C. The Chrysler Museum: Handbook of the European and American Collections. Norfolk, 1991, p. 13. [mentioned under cat. No.12]
Hinsberg, Claire M. “Tintoretto’s Dreams.” Detroit Monthly: DIA Views, November, 1994, 2A-4A.
Taubman, Alfred A., Samuel Sachs II, Richard Manoogian, and Joseph P. Bianco. “Expanding Our Audience: Museum Report.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 69, no. ¾ (1995): 6-19, pp. 12, 14.
Echols, Robert. "'Jacopo nel Corso, Presso al Palio': dal soffitto per l'aretino al Miracolo dello Schiavo." In Jacopo Tintoretto nel quarto centenario della morte. Padua, 1996, p. 81, notes 18, 23; p. 302 (ill.).
Pesenti, Franco Renzo. "Il sorgere del sole e l'amore divino in Tintoretto." In Per sovrana risoluzione: studi in ricordo di Amelio Tagliaferri, vol. 4. Venice, 1998, pp. 457–464, figs. 3–4 (ill.).
Gargaro Jr., Eugene. “The Year in Review.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 79, no. 3-4 (2005): 4-11, p. 8.
Eastaugh, Nicholas, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, and Ruth Siddall. Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary and Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments. Amsterdam, 2008, p. 297.
Panayotova, Stella and Paola Ricciardi. Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts. London, 2016, p. 55, cat. 8.
Echols, Robert and Frederick Ilchman Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice. New Haven and London, 2018, pp. 96-101, fig. 35 (ill.).
Franco, Veronica and Carlo Ridolfi eds. Lives of Tintoretto. Los Angeles, 2019, p. 203.
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Tintoretto, The Dreams of Men, mid-16th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 23.11.
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