Jacopo Tintoretto

1519–1594 · Republic of Venice · Italian Renaissance, Mannerism

Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518 – 31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. Wikipedia

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Dramatic diagonals, dark spaces cut by flashes of light, steep perspective and figures in violent motion.

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“Last Supper”, 1563 — Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
“Crucifixion”, 1565 — Scuola Grande di San Rocco
“Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan”, 1555 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
“The Origin of the Milky Way”, 1575 — National Gallery
“Susanna and the Elders”, 1555 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Miracle of the Slave”, 1547 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Paradise”, 1588 — Doge's Palace
“Danae”, 1570 — Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
“The Muses”, 1578 — Royal Collection
“The Rape of Helen”, 1578 — Museo del Prado
“The Birth of John the Baptist”, 1550 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Procurator Jacopo Soranzo”, 1550 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Esther before Ahasuerus”, 1547 — National Gallery
“Leda and the Swan”, 1550s — Uffizi Gallery
“St Mark's Body Brought to Venice”, 1564 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“St. Mark rescues a Sarracen”, 1562 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet”, 1548 — Museo del Prado
“Temptation of Adam”, 1550–1553 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Finding of the body of St Mark”, 1562 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Saint George and the Dragon”, 1555 — National Gallery
“Self-Portrait”, 1587 — Orleans Collection
“Madonna dei Camerlenghi”, 1567 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“The Deliverance of Arsinoe”, 1556 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Bacchus, Venus and Ariadne”, 1577 — Doge's Palace
“Creation of the Animals”, 1550 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Cain and Abel”, 1550–1553 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“St. Roch in Glory”, 1564 — Scuola Grande di San Rocco
“The Siege of Asola”, 1544 — National Museum in Poznań
“Joseph and Potiphar's Wife”, 1555 — Museo del Prado
“Lorenzo Soranzo”, 1553 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Saints Louis and George with the Princess”, 1552 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“The Presentation of the Virgin”, 1553 — Madonna dell'Orto
“Moses Striking Water from the Rock”, 1577 — Scuola Grande di San Rocco
“Francesco II Gonzaga at the battle of Taro”
“Tarquin and Lucretia”, 1579 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Portrait of a White-Bearded Man”, 1570 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Portrait of the Doge Sebastiano Venier” — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Old Man and a Boy”, 1565 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Portrait of a man”, 1546 — Uffizi Gallery
“Diana and Endymion or Venus and Adonis”, 1579 — Uffizi Gallery

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