It’s nestled beside the former home of prolific 16th-century Mannerist painter Jacopo Robusti (widely known as Tintoretto), famed for his dramatic narrative scenes and the decoration of Venice ...

Jacopo Robusti, the wide-eyed eldest child of a humble dyer—or tintore in Italian, and so named Tintoretto—was born 500 years ago. “Tintoretto: Birth of a Genius” at the Musée du ...

In the 16th century, Jacopo Tintoretto stormed the Western world with emotionally resonant religious scenes. His first full-scale retrospective in the United States opens this month in Washington.

Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is ...

A Venetian cloth dyer’s son, Tintoretto spent his entire career in Venice, becoming widely considered the last great painter of the Renaissance.

His real name was Jacopo Robusti - he adopted the nickname Tintoretto which means "the little dyer". He was a pioneer in the new format of the era - oil on canvas.

Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (1518-94) was one of the greatest of all Venetian painters, and his vast narrative scenes – full of energy, physical drama and pathos – are often illuminated by an ...

Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto and Studio (1518 – 1594), The Angel foretelling Saint Catherine of Alexandria of her martyrdom Oil . Audrey Gascho November 15, 2016 Share Share This ...

With his high-concept, action-packed canvases, Jacopo Tintoretto was perhaps the Steven Spielberg of late Renaissance painters, says Frederick Ilchman, co-curator of “Tintoretto: Artist of ...