In his studio, Jacopo Tintoretto — whom some consider the greatest painter Venice ever produced — was said to have displayed a motto calling for the draftsmanship (disegno) of Michelangelo and the ...

Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes the spirit of the artist, whose giant and somewhat manic artworks cover a substantial portion of the floating city’s most opulent ...

This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian Renaissance painter Jacobo Tintoretto—but despite his undeniable Old Master pedigree, the artist falls short of household name ...

Legend has it that when Jacopo Tintoretto was 12 years old, he was so good at drawing that he rattled Titian — the master artist of Venice, 30 years his senior. Young Tintoretto was an apprentice in ...

VENICE, Italy — A Venetian cloth dyer's son, Tintoretto spent his entire career in Venice, becoming widely considered the last great painter of the Renaissance. The lagoon city's churches and palazzi ...

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 recorded ...

There is a freshness about the portraits in the small and beautiful exhibition of Tintoretto’s paintings and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that speaks to what appears to be the artist’s ...

Jacopo Tintoretto, “Paradise” (c. 1563-1583) (Image via Wikimedia Commons) One of the most buzzed-about art shows of 2019 — an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art of 16th-century Italian master ...

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 Luxembourg (through ...

A two-year conservation project has revealed the complicated development of a painting by the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which goes back on public display in Warwickshire, UK on ...