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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:: 32664
Creation of the Animals
c. 1550
Oil on canvas,
151 x 258 cm
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Painting ID:: 32688
St Louis, St George and the Princess
c. 1553
Oil on canvas,
226 x 146 cm
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Painting ID:: 32694
Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples
c. 1547
Oil on canvas,
210 x 533 cm
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Painting ID:: 32695
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
1578-81
Oil on canvas,
523 x 460 cm
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Painting ID:: 32696
La Probatica Piscina
1578-81
Oil on canvas,
533 x 529 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: | Bernardino Fungai | Pinturicchio | Orest Kiprensky | Stephen Pearce | adriaen backer |
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