Tintoretto biography obrasci

tintoretto_ritratto.jpg">The year of birth of jacopo Robusti, 1519, has been derived from the artist’s death certificate that stated that he was seventy-five years old.

Seventeenth century art historians said he was a pupil of Titian and wrote about the serious conflicts between the two, conflicts that prompted the young Tintoretto to leave his master’s atelier. Even if we do not know when he began his independent career, it must have been before 1539 when Jacopo already had his own atelier in Campo San Cassiano and signed his works “maestro.” In June 1544 he signed a deposition stating his father’s name (Giambattista) and trade (dyer).

Tintoretto biography obrasci

[Tr. note: the Italian word for “dyer” is tintore, hence the nickname Tintoretto]. The decorations of two ceilings with mythological subjects in the Venice home of Pietro Aretino date from 1545. Two years later he signed the altarpiece of the Last Supper in the Venetian church of San Marcuola.

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