The “Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum of La Spezia is preparing to host a new exhibition dedicated to Venetian Renaissance painting. In fact, from March 27 to May 3, 2026, the exhibition The Resurrection of Tintoretto will be presented. Death and Life: The Prodigious Duel, curated by Andrea Marmori, which will bring to the city the monumental Resurrection of Christ by Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto, from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. The initiative is part of the program of events organized for the 30-year anniversary of the La Spezia museum and offers the public a comparison between the Venetian master’s great painting and some works already preserved in the institution’s collection.
Tintoretto’s canvas depicts one of the central moments of the Gospel story: Christ emerges from the tomb with a triumphant gesture, surrounded by an intense light that breaks the darkness of the scene and overwhelms the guards placed at the foot of the funerary monument. The composition, characterized by strong dramatic tension and light effects typical of the artist’s pictorial language, restores the moment of the victory of life over death with great dynamism.
“Tintoretto for the first time in La Spezia with a canvas of impressive magnificence and great aesthetic and symbolic value,” says La Spezia Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini. "Tintoretto’s magnificent and imposing painting of the Resurrection of Christ represents for our City an extraordinary and unexpected gift, which makes even more significant the milestone of the 30th anniversary of the “Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum. Welcoming to La Spezia a masterpiece of such value, from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, is a source of great pride and confirms the central role that the Lia Museum continues to play in the city’s cultural life. This prestigious loan further enriches the 30th anniversary celebrations and creates an artistic dialogue of great intensity with the works already housed in the museum, in particular with the Deposition from the Cross by Tintoretto himself and Cariani’s Christ Deposed. A confrontation that offers the public an experience of extraordinary evocative power, capable of accompanying visitors in a profound reflection on the universal meaning of Easter, through the expressive power of the great Venetian painting of the Renaissance. I invite citizens and visitors to seize this unique opportunity to admire up close a monumental masterpiece of art history, which will enrich the civic cultural heritage for a few weeks."
In the exhibition itinerary, the work will be related to two paintings already in the collection of the Lia Museum. The first is the Deposition from the Cross by Tintoretto himself, an intense depiction of mourning around the body of Christ that focuses attention on the pain and emotional participation of the characters. Also presented alongside this canvas will be the Deposition of Christ by Giovanni Busi, known as Cariani, one of the best-known works of Lombard-Venetian painting between the 15th and 16th centuries, known for its strong expressive charge and the marked plasticity of the figures.
The dialogue between the three works builds an itinerary focused on the fundamental passages of the Gospel narrative, from death to resurrection, which the Easter liturgical tradition summarizes in the famous verse “Death and Life faced each other in a prodigious duel.” The comparison of the paintings allows a close look at different figurative and stylistic interpretations of the same theme, highlighting the ways in which painters active in the Veneto area between the 15th and 16th centuries approached the representation of the Passion of Christ. The exhibition will be inaugurated on Friday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in the rooms of the “Amedeo Lia” Civic Museum. On the same day, at 12 noon, the presentation of the exhibition project to the press is scheduled, an occasion when the full press release will be released and the program of initiatives related to the exhibition will be explained. The arrival of Tintoretto’s Resurrection of Christ in La Spezia represents one of the central events in the institution’s exhibition calendar in 2026.
Tickets: full price € 9.00; reduced price € 8.00 for groups of 7 to 25 people; children aged 14 to 18; university students who do not benefit from free admission; people who benefit from signed agreements
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Closed: every Monday except Easter Monday; Jan. 1, Aug. 15 and Dec. 25
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| Tintoretto in Spice: the Resurrection from the Gallerie dell'Accademia on display at the Lia Museum |
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