Detroit Museum Returns Venetian Gem To Its Ceiling
"Tintoretto's enormous 'The Dreams of Men,' one of the stars of the Detroit Institute of Art's permanent collection, was reinstalled last month in a specially designed octagonal ceiling perch 24 feet above the ground. The painting -- an oil on canvas measuring more than 12 feet long and 7 feet wide and depicting gods and mythological figures -- was painted for the bedroom ceiling of a well-to-do Venetian merchant around 1550. More than 450 years later, the DIA has returned the work to its original ceiling orientation, offering Detroiters an exhilarating perspective that no other museum in the United States can match." Detroit Free Press 09/19/07

Posted September 19, 2007 06:26 AM