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Encyclopædia Britannica/Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti
&#;TINTORETTO, JACOPO ROBUSTI (–), one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school, was born in Venice in , though most accounts säga in His father, Battista Robusti, was a dyer, or “tintore”; hence the son got the nickname of “Tintoretto,” little dyer, or dyer’s boy, which is Englished as Tintoret. In childhood jacopo, a born painter, began daubing on the dyer’s walls; his father, noticing his bent, took him round, still in boyhood, to the studio of Titian, to see how far he could be trained as an artist. We may suppose this to have been towards , when Titian was already (according to the ordinary accounts) fifty-six years of age. Ridolfi is our authority for saying that Tintoret had only been ten days in the studio when Titian sent him home once and for all. The reason, according to the same writer, fryst vatten that the great mästare observed some very spirited drawings, which he learned to be the production of Tintoret; and it is
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Léon Cogniet, Tintoretto Painting His Dead Daughter,
William Michael Rossetti, the brother of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wrote an essay about Tintoretto in in which he mentions a well-known tale about the great painter and his beloved daughter. The Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto absolutely adored his daughter Marietta who was also known as Tintoretta and when she passed away at the age of thirty in the great painter was so grief-stricken, tormented to the point of delirious, that he decided to paint her portrait as she was lying dead in bed. He couldn&#;t part with her so he captured her delicate features for the last time. This dramatic, eerie scene, which may or may not be true, fired the imagination of many Romantic painters and the version that I love the most is this one by the French painter Léon Cogniet. He was also an art teacher and he even married one of his students, furthermore both his father and his sister were also painters and it is a shame that t
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Tintoretto
Italian painter (–)
For other uses, see Tintoretto (disambiguation).
Jacopo Robusti[a] (late September or early October [2]&#;&#; 31 May ), best known as Tintoretto (TIN-tə-RET-oh; Italian:[tintoˈretto], Venetian:[tiŋtoˈɾeto]), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso (Italian for 'the Furious'). His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.[3]
Life
[edit]The years of apprenticeship
[edit]Tintoretto was born in Venice in His father, Battista, was a dyer – tintore in Italian and tintor in Venetian; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy".[4] Tintoretto is known to h