Tintoretto · 1518–1594
Tintoretto
Tintoretto (1518-1594) was a 16th-century Venetian painter. He sublimated Titian's color and Michelangelo's draftsmanship and is known for artificial lighting and dramatic dynamic expression.
Tintoretto (born Jacopo Robusti, 1518-1594) was a painter born in Venice. At first he took Titian Vecellio of the Venetian school as his teacher.
During his stay in Rome in 1545-46 he was strongly attracted to the human figures created by Michelangelo and was greatly influenced by them. He is said to have learned Michelangelo's figures through sculpture and drawing. His art, which sought to sublimate Titian's rich color and Michelangelo's drawing ability to grasp mass, came to fruition in the setting of artificial lighting and dramatic expression of movement. His first teacher, Titian, was also a painter of the Venetian school.
His influence on contemporary painters, especially El Greco of Spain, is said to have been great. One of his works is Portrait of a Collector.
