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The Italian artist who rocked the Renaissance art world and became David Bowie’s favorite artist. Today, we know this iconic Renaissance master as ‘Tintoretto’ (1518 – 1594), but he was actually...
Oct 1, 2020 · Tintoretto (c. 1518-1594 CE), real name Jacopo Robusti, was an Italian Renaissance artist who specialised in religious, mythological, and portrait paintings. A prolific artist over a long career, the Venetian's masterpieces are famous for their light, vibrant colouring, and dramatic composition.
View all 295 artworks. Tintoretto lived in the XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Mannerism (Late Renaissance). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Tintoretto's art is characterised by daring inventiveness in both handling and composition. Most of his paintings are large-scale narratives on canvas, animated by dramatic lighting and gestures. The 19th-century copy of 'The Miracle of Saint Mark' gives an impression of this type of work.
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) Italian. ca. 1545–50. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 608. A crowd gathers in Tintoretto’s sprawling depiction of one of the miracles of Christ: when he is said to have fed five thousand people with just five barley loaves and two fish.
Tintoretto, Jacopo. Also known as Robusti, Jacopo Venetian, 1518 or 1519 - 1594. BIOGRAPHY. Jacopo Tintoretto was, along with Titian (Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576) and Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588), one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting.
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice. Jacopo Tintoretto, Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan, c. 1545/1546, oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.
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