Walton Ford and Udo Kittelmann discuss Ford's newest exhibition in Italy. Featuring a new body of work conceived in response to the collection of the city’s historical institution Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Lion of God consists of a series of monumental watercolor paintings that explore the historical, biological, and environmental resonance of the subjects of the library’s collection, particularly the figure of the lion in Tintoretto’s Apparizione della Vergine a San Girolamo (The Apparition of the Virgin to St. Jerome) (c. 1580). The presentation spans two rooms in the Ateneo- the Aula Magna on the ground floor, and the Sala Tommaseo hall where Tintoretto’s work is on vi...