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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...
Mar 7, 2022 · Jacopo Tintoretto’s paintings, which were originally designed to ornament the vast expanses of immense halls and soaring ceilings, loom, daring to break through the limits between fake visual space and the actual world. Even Tintoretto’s self-portraits demonstrate the artist’s character rather than just his technique.
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.
Tintoretto was a painter with a wholly personal, constantly evolving technique and vision.
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, orig. Jacopo Robusti, (born c. 1518, Venice, Republic of Venice—died May 31, 1594, Venice), Italian painter. His father was a silk dyer ( tintore ); hence the nickname Tintoretto (“Little Dyer”). His early influences include Michelangelo and Titian.
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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