TINTORETTO

Tintoretto is one of the most famous Venetian painters of the 16th century. He is known for painting in a variety of styles, and his work ranges from frescoes to portraits.

Tintoretto died in 1594 at the age of 87.

Tintoretto was a master painter from the Renaissance period. Born as Jacopo Robusti in Venice, Italy, he was a prominent exponent of the Venetian school.

His father was a butcher who had little to no knowledge about art or painting. Tintoretto was self-taught. He enrolled at the age of 12 at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where he studied drawing and eventually painting. Tintoretto spent his life as an apprentice for other established painters before taking on commissions for himself.

Tintoretto had a sense of color that has been termed “astonishing.” In his work, he uses light with great skill to showcase the contrasts and harmonies of the human body. His figures are also highly expressive and Tintoretto manages to capture their emotions.

Tintoretto is now considered a genius by critics and historians. He was a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, but his paintings were different from the other two Renaissance masters.

He was more interested in making his paintings dramatic and realistic, rather than being an artist who was obsessed with perfecting the human form. Tintoretto also left behind some unfinished works that show how he had always been keen on experimenting with different techniques of painting.