TINTORETTO

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 or 15191594) was known for the remarkable energy of his work. His contemporary Giorgio Vasari described him as the most extraordinary brain that painting has ever produced. Considered to be one of the three great painters of 16th-century Venice, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto is admired for his dramatic treatments of sacred and secular narrative sub jects and his insightful portraits of the Venetian aristocracy. His bold and expressive brushwork, which made his paintings seem unf inished to ...[Read more]