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Article: Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518–1594)
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TINTORETTO (Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518
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1594)
TINTORETTO
(Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518
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1594), Italian painter. Jacopo Tintoretto was easily the most prolific painter in late-sixteenth-century Venice. The son of a Venetian cloth dyer, he advertised the fact in his professional nickname. Unlike certain other leading artists of the time, Tintoretto
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"the little dyer"
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did not seek to conceal his lower-class social origins. He was trained in an unidentified Venetian workshop during the 1530s. Early reports that he was summarily ejected from Titian's shop may represent nothing more than flattering legend. But the older master's professional hostility is nonetheless ...