Tintoretto

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Tintoretto: The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Tintoretto: Doge Alvise Mocenigo and Family Before the Madonna and Child

Agostino Carracci: engraving of Jacopo Tintoretto's Mercury and the Three Graces

At a Glance

Tintoretto summary

Quizzes

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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.

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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.

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Did Tintoretto study in Titian’s workshop?
How did Mannerism shape Tintoretto’s paintings?
How did Michelangelo influence Tintoretto’s painting?
How did Paolo Veronese’s art influence Tintoretto?
How did Pietro Aretino support Tintoretto’s career?
How did Tintoretto and Veronese differ in the aspects of Titian’s art they developed?
How did Tintoretto create a sense of everyday life in his Last Supper for San Marcuola?
How did Tintoretto make figures seem unstable or in motion?
How did Tintoretto practice drawing figures and lighting effects?
How did Tintoretto use dramatic foreshortening in his compositions?
How did Tintoretto use light and color in the Crucifixion at San Rocco?
How did Tintoretto use light in Susanna at her Bath?
How did Tintoretto use space in St. George and the Dragon?
How did Tintoretto win the commission to decorate the Sala dell’Albergo?
How did Tintoretto’s late paintings differ from his earlier works?
How did Titian influence Tintoretto’s use of light and emotion?
How did later critics respond differently to Tintoretto’s art?
How did small wax models help Tintoretto plan paintings?
How many children did Tintoretto and Faustina Episcopi have?
What biblical scenes are paired in Tintoretto’s Golden Calf and Last Judgment paintings?
What happens in Tintoretto’s Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda?
What makes Tintoretto’s Christ and the Adulteress a Mannerist painting?
What makes Tintoretto’s Last Supper at San Giorgio Maggiore different from Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper?
What mythological paintings did Tintoretto make for the Doges’ Palace?
What scenes did Tintoretto paint in the lower hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco?
What subjects appeared in Tintoretto’s early ceiling paintings?
What work did Tintoretto’s father do?
When and where was Tintoretto born?
When did Tintoretto die?
Where was Tintoretto buried?
Which Baroque artists were influenced by 16th-century Venetian painting?
Which artistic movement is Tintoretto associated with?
Which artists competed to decorate the Scuola Grande di San Rocco?
Which features of Venetian painting appear in Tintoretto’s art?
Which paintings did Tintoretto create for the church of Madonna dell’Orto?
Who praised Tintoretto after seeing San Marco Freeing the Slave?
Who was Andrea Meldolla and how did he work with Tintoretto?
Who was St. Roch and why did the Scuola Grande di San Rocco honor him?
Why did San Marco Freeing the Slave make Tintoretto famous?
Why did fresco painting influence Tintoretto’s working method?
Why is Tintoretto considered a Venetian painter?
Why is Tintoretto’s Last Supper at San Giorgio Maggiore considered a major work of his career?
Why is Tintoretto’s artistic training uncertain?
Why is light so important in Tintoretto’s paintings?
Why was Jacopo Robusti called Tintoretto?
What is Masaccio best known for?
What does the name Masaccio mean?
What is Holy Trinity by Masaccio known for?
How did Masaccio influence other artists?
What was Masaccio’s relationship with Masolino?
Why is Sandro Botticelli so famous?
What was Sandro Botticelli’s family like?
How was Sandro Botticelli educated?
Why is Albrecht Dürer so famous?
What is Albrecht Dürer known for?

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Tintoretto

Italian painter

Also known as: Jacopo Robusti, Jacopo Rubusti

Written by

Rodolfo Pallucchini

Director, Institute of Art History, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, 1972–89. Author of Disegni di Giambattista Tiepolo; La giovinezza del Tintoretto; Veronese; and others.

Rodolfo Pallucchini

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History

Tintoretto (born c. 1518, Venice [Italy]—died May 31, 1594, Venice) was a great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. His paintings include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars (c. 1555), the Mannerist Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545–48), and his masterpiece of 1592–94, the Last Supper of San Giorgio Maggiore. Increasingly concerned with the drama of light and space, he achieved in his mature...

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