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Also known as: Jacopo Robusti, Jacopo Rubusti
Tintoretto: Last Supper
- Notable Works:
- “San Marco Freeing the Slave” “Susanna in the Bath” “The Adoration of the Golden Calf”
- Movement / Style:
- Late Renaissance Mannerism Renaissance art Venetian school Renaissance
Tintoretto, byname of Jacopo Robusti, (born c. 1518, Venice [Italy]—died May 31, 1594, Venice), great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. His paintings include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars (c. 1555), the Mannerist Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545–48), and his masterpiece of 1592–94, the Last Supper of San Giorgio Maggiore. Increasingly concerned with the drama of light and space, he achieved in his mature work (e.g., The Adoration of the Golden Calf, c. 1560) a luminous visionary quality. Little is known of Tintoretto’s life. In a will ...(100 of 2707 words)