John-Paul Stonard: At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (opens in new tab)

Eroi d’Oro​ , an exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (until 27 September), contains Georg Baselitz’s final works. He died six days before the show opened, at the age of 88. Sixteen monumental paintings are displayed in two large rooms lined with black fabric; the building adjoins the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, famous for its great late works by Tintoretto, the Last Supper and The Israelites in the Desert. Most of the paintings are close to five metres tall and each portra...