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Also Known As Jacopo Rubusti • Jacopo Robusti
Born c.1518 • Venice • Italy
Died May 31, 1594 • Venice • Italy
Notable Works “Adam and Eve” • “San Marco Freeing the Slave” • “Susanna in the Bath” • “The Adoration of the Golden Calf”
Movement / Style Late Renaissance • Mannerism • Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance

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Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto: Susannah and the Elders
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
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto: The Raising of Lazarus
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