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Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto BIOGRAPHY
1518 Venice, Italy - 1594 Venice, Italy. Known for: Religious figure painting.
Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594. Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known... Read full biography
Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594. Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485 - 1576), having very briefly trained under the master. Tintoretto... Read full biography
Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594. Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485 - 1576), having very briefly trained under the master. Tintoretto had high ambitions, and adorned an inscription in his studio that said, "Michelangelo's design and Titian's Color." In this he sought to produce the brilliant compositional methods of Michelangelo,... Read full biography
Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594. Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485 - 1576), having very briefly trained under the master. Tintoretto had high ambitions, and adorned an inscription in his studio that said, "Michelangelo's design and Titian's Color." In this he sought to produce the brilliant compositional methods of Michelangelo, while using the bold coloring of Titian; a goal of the highest order for Renaissance painting. He is often said to herald a Baroque style of painting. Tintoretto was born Jacopo Comin and called Jacopo Robusti in youth, but artistically he was often... Read full biography
Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594. Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485 - 1576), having very briefly trained under the master. Tintoretto had high ambitions, and adorned an inscription in his studio that said, "Michelangelo's design and Titian's Color." In this he sought to produce the brilliant compositional methods of Michelangelo, while using the bold coloring of Titian; a goal of the highest order for Renaissance painting. He is often said to herald a Baroque style of painting. Tintoretto was born Jacopo Comin and called Jacopo Robusti in youth, but artistically he was often called Il Furioso, for the fury in which in painted. He may have trained with Titan in 1553, but it is said the master s... Read full biography
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Jacopo Tintoretto, September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594
Tintoretto was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting. He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485 - 1576), having very briefly trained under the master. Tintoretto had high ambitions, and adorned an inscription in his studio that said, "Michelangelo's design and Titian's Color." In this he sought to produce the brilliant compositional methods of Michelangelo, while using the bold coloring of Titian; a goal of the highest order for Renaissance painting. He is often said to herald a Baroque style of painting.
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