Robert Echols

Robert Echols is an independent scholar and curator specializing in Venetian Renaissance painting, in particular the work of Jacopo Tintoretto. With Frederick Ilchman, he was co-curator of the 2018-19 Tintoretto 500th-anniversary exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. His numerous publications, many co-authored with Frederick Ilchman, have provided a major reconsideration of Tintoretto’s oeuvre. Echols completed his doctorate at the University of Maryland, where he was a student of W. R. Rearick.