Resumen de Domenico Molin: un riflesso del Tintoretto
Domenico Molin, a reflection of Tintoretto.
Domenico Molin is a painter almost lacking any biography or works. He is known to have worked with Jacopo Tintoretto on the vestibule of the San Marco library and to have painted a portrait of the famous doctor Tomasso Rangone from life, but no certain work by him has come down to us. Starting from a letter by Aretino, never considered before, and a sixteenth-century Matua book it has been possible nevertheless to begin some fruitful archive research and reconstruct many features of his complicated biographical and artistic parabola: his birth in Venice to a family of ancient nobility, his family difficulties, his links to a common woman banished from the territory of the Republic, his stay in Mantua with the Gonzaga, his return to Venice, his work as a mirror decorator, the painting of pictures inspired by the concept of purity for the library vestibule, others for some members of the Gonzaga court, problems with the law, his exile to Trento and his return to Venice in old age.
