This beautifully illustrated book, with numerous essays by an
international roster of leading art historians, examines Jacopo
Tintoretto's masterpiece Angel Foretelling the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
painted between 1560 and 1570 for the Church of San Geminiano in
Venice. It was displayed in this location for some 250 years until the
church was demolished in 1807, and in 1818 the painting was sold into
private hands. It was, famously, the centrepiece of the late rock star
David Bowie's collection, being one of the first artworks he acquired.
He had it for nearly 30 years, and named his record label after the
artist (the Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC). In 2016 it was
purchased at auction by a private collector and donated to the Rubens
House in Antwerp, where it is on long-term loan. This book accompanies
the display of the painting, back in Venice for the first time in 200
years as part of an exhibition at Palazzo Ducale.