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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:: 32707
Portrait of Jacopo Soranzo
c. 1550
Oil on canvas,
106 x 89 cm
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Painting ID:: 32708
The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave
1548
Oil on canvas,
415 x 541 cm
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Painting ID:: 32709
The Stealing of the Dead Body of St Mark
1562-66
Oil on canvas,
398 x 315 cm
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Painting ID:: 32710
The Bathing Susanna
1560-62
Oil on canvas,
146,6 x 193,6 cm
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Painting ID:: 32712
Vulcanus Takes Mars and Venus Unawares
Oil on canvas,
135 x 198 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: | Xavier De Cock | Giovanni di Paolo | Lefebvre, Jules Joseph | Christian Albrecht Jensen | Thomas Lyde Hornbrook |
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