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Tintoretto

Venetian Renaissance painter known for speed, boldness, and dramatic Mannerist style.

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Jacopo Robusti, who went by the nickname Tintoretto, was born in Venice in 1518 and became a painter of the Venetian school during the Italian Renaissance.[1][2] The Mannerist style of Tintoretto's paintings features dramatic gestures, muscular figures, and a daring use of perspective.[3] People of his time had mixed reactions to Tintoretto's work, both praising and faulting the speed of his execution and the daring nature of his brushwork.[3]

Life and work

Tintoretto's father Battista was a dyer, which gave the son his nickname meaning "little dyer"[2] His only formal apprenticeship was in Titian's studio, but Titian dismissed him after a few days.[4] Tintoretto studied on his own with laborious zeal, drawing from live models and dissecting cadavers.[5] In 1548, his painting the Miracle of the Slave for the Scuola di S. Marco was a triumphant success.[6][7]

Between 1565 and 1588, he produced many paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.[8] Tintoretto married Faustina de Vescovi around 1560 and had many children with her.[9][10] The largest painting ever created on canvas is believed to be Tintoretto's Paradise, a vast work for the Doge's Palace that represents the pinnacle of his career.[11]

What the cited sources add

A 2013 BBC News report states that the Victoria and Albert Museum painting The Embarkation of St Helena in the Holy Land was reattributed to Tintoretto after previously being thought to be by Andrea Schiavone.[12] The same source notes the painting is believed to have been executed around 1555.[12] The work is one of 200 paintings at the V&A to be reattributed or re-identified.[12] The curator wrote that the style, with broken brushwork and a palette of cool greys offset by white, ochre and carmine, is typical of early Tintoretto.[12]

While cataloguing continental European oil paintings in the UK, the mistake in attribution was discovered.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, p. 39.; Echols 2018, pp. 38–40. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Zuffi, "One Thousand Years of Painting: An Atlas of Western Painting from 1000 to 2000 A.D.", Electa, 2004, p. 427 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, p. 85. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, pp. 41, 85. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rossetti 1911, p. 1001; "wga", wga.hu; Echols 2018, p. 7. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, p. 7. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Zuffi, "The Renaissance: 1401-1610 - the splendor of European art", Barnes & Noble Books, 2003, p. 403; Echols 2018, p. 21. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, p. 53.; Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Echols 2018, p. 53.; Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.; Echols 2018, p. 54. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Tintoretto" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rossetti 1911, p. 1001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "BBC News – Tintoretto painting uncovered at London V&A museum", BBC, 7 June 2013. facts only, no text reused. bbc.co.uk

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