丁托列托（Jacopo Tintoretto，1518/19-1594）是意大利文艺复兴时期最具特色的艺术家之一。然而，虽然他大胆的绘画作品一目了然，但他的素描作品即使对许多学者来说也是陌生的。《丁托列托的威尼斯素描》对作为绘图者的丁托列托进行了一次完整的概述。它从丁托列托的前辈和同时代人的绘画作品开始探讨，这一讨论旨在阐明丁托列托的灵感来源以及他的**性，同时也为了探讨历史学和批判性的问题，这些问题正是以往所有关于丁托列托平面作品讨论的框架。

本书是为配合 "丁托列托的威尼斯素描"展览而出版的，该展览于2018年在纽约摩根图书馆和博物馆开幕，并将于2019年初前往华盛顿国家美术馆展出。书中对展览中的所有绘画作品都进行了讨论和说明，卷中还附有展览的清单，但本书是对丁托列托绘画作品更广泛的介绍，也是对他作为绘图师工作的全面阐述。

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19-1594) was among the most distinctive artists of the Italian Renaissance. Yet, although his bold paintings are immediately recognizable, his drawings remain unfamiliar even to many scholars. Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice offers a complete overview of Tintoretto as a draftsman. It begins with a look at drawings by Tintoretto’s precedents and contemporaries, a discussion intended to illuminate Tintoretto’s sources as well as his originality, and also to explore the historiographical and critical questions that have framed all previous discussion of Tintoretto’s graphic work.

The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, opening at the Morgan Library& Museum, New York, in 2018 and travelling to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in early 2019. All of the drawings in the exhibition are discussed and illustrated, and a checklist of the exhibition is also included in the volume, but the book is a far more widely ranging account of Tintoretto’s drawings and a comprehensive account of his work as a draftsman.