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Tintoretto
Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1518-1594
His father was a silk dyer (tintore); hence the nickname Tintoretto ("Little Dyer"). His early influences include Michelangelo and Titian. In Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545) figures are set in vast spaces in fanciful perspectives, in distinctly Mannerist style. In 1548 he became the centre of attention of artists and literary men in Venice with his St. Mark Freeing the Slave, so rich in structural elements of post-Michelangelo Roman art that it is surprising to learn that he had never visited Rome. By 1555 he was a famous and sought-after painter, with a style marked by quickness of execution, great vivacity of colour, a predilection for variegated perspective, and a dynamic conception of space. In his most important undertaking, the decoration of Venice's Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1564 C 88), he exhibited his passionate style and profound religious faith. His technique and vision were wholly personal and constantly evolving.
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Painting ID:: 32697
The Slaughter of the Innocents
1582-87
Oil on canvas,
422 x 546 cm
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Painting ID:: 32698
St Mary Magdalen
1582-87
Oil on canvas,
425 x 209 cm
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Painting ID:: 32699
St Mary of Egypt
1582-87
Oil on canvas,
425 x 211 cm
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Painting ID:: 32700
The Circumcision
c. 1587
Oil on canvas,
440 x 482 cm
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Painting ID:: 32701
The Deliverance of Arsinoe
c. 1560
Oil on canvas,
153 x 251 cm
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Tintoretto
Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1518-1594
His father was a silk dyer (tintore); hence the nickname Tintoretto ("Little Dyer"). His early influences include Michelangelo and Titian. In Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545) figures are set in vast spaces in fanciful perspectives, in distinctly Mannerist style. In 1548 he became the centre of attention of artists and literary men in Venice with his St. Mark Freeing the Slave, so rich in structural elements of post-Michelangelo Roman art that it is surprising to learn that he had never visited Rome. By 1555 he was a famous and sought-after painter, with a style marked by quickness of execution, great vivacity of colour, a predilection for variegated perspective, and a dynamic conception of space. In his most important undertaking, the decoration of Venice's Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1564 C 88), he exhibited his passionate style and profound religious faith. His technique and vision were wholly personal and constantly evolving.
. Related Artists to Tintoretto: | Axel Haig | Giovanni Lanfranco | Vincenzo Giacomelli | Agostino Carracci | Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenee |
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