A documentary about a wild spirit, a revolutionary genius that has changed the history of art. Tintoretto. A rebel in Venice portrays the story of the painter Jacopo Robusti and presents the socio-political context of Venice in the sixteenth century, a culturally flourishing century, during which other giants in the art world played an important role such as be Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto’s rivals.

The documentary will closely follow the complete and complex analysis that a team of Italian experts has accomplished to restore two of Tintoretto’s masterpieces: “Mary in Meditation” (1582-1583) and “Mary Reading” (1582-1583).