LIVES OF TINTORETTO

The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furioso becaus e of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano (Michelangelo's drawing and Titian's colour).The Florentines Vasari and Borghini, and the Ven etians Ridolfi and Boschini wrote the earliest biographies of the artist. The four accounts are related each other and form the back bone of t...[Llegir més]