Resumen de Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice
During the Renaissance, the Venetian Treasury, the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, housed an extensive pictorial cycle that encompassed work by the city’s leading painters. The significance of this massive scheme, subsequently dispersed, remains largely unrecognized. This article seeks to reintroduce the scheme to critical consciousness with the aid of new pictorial reconstructions and an account of its development. Concentrating on Bonifacio, Veronese, and Tintoretto, who made the largest contributions, the author focuses on how the state was able to manipulate the process of commissioning works of art as a way of engendering the corporate ethos of Venetian society.
