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Tintoretto
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synonyms: Jacopo Robusti, Il Furioso ???
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Definition:a famous Italian artist, one of Ruskin's "five supreme painters," born at Venice; save for a few lessons under Titian he seems to have been self-taught; took for his models Titian and Michael Angelo, and came specially to excel in grandeur of conception and in strong chiaroscuro effects; amongst his most notable pictures are "Belshazzar's Feast," "The Last Supper," "The Crucifixion," "The Last Judgment," "The Resurrection," &c.; some of these are of enormous size (1518-1594).Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)
painting 1: self portrait (1588) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127877painting 2: The Last Supper (1593) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15542295
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"There’s a first-rate Tintoretto there. One of his latest period."
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We have seen Tintoretto's monster picture, which is seventy-four feet long and I do not know how many feet high, and thought it a very commodious picture.
Mark Twain. Innocents Abroad (1869)
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He had always found a peculiar fascination in tracing in the paintings of the Old Masters, not merely the general characteristics of the people whom he encountered in his daily life, but rather what seems least susceptible of generalisation, the individual features of men and women whom he knew, as, for instance, in a bust of the Doge Loredan by Antonio Rizzo, the prominent cheekbones, the slanting eyebrows, in short, a speaking likeness to his own coachman Rémi; in the colouring of a Ghirlandaio, the nose of M. de Palancy; in a portrait by Tintoretto, the invasion of the plumpness of the cheek by an outcrop of whisker, the broken nose, the penetrating stare, the swollen eyelids of Dr. du Boulbon.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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