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Tintoretto, Renaissance Master

20 days ago   |   By Chez Namaste Nancy

Jacopo Tintoretto had a bumpy start. Carlo Ridolfi, his 17th-century biographer, describes how the boy was apprenticed to Titian for mere days before the older artist expelled him from his studio in a fit of jealousy. Undaunted, Tintoretto taught himself by copying the finest artists of the day. To maintain focus, the youth inscribed on a wall: ‘Il disegno di Michelangelo e il colorito di Tiziano' (the draughtsmanship of Michelangelo and the paint handling of Titian).
Although some scholars assume this account is apocryphal, the visual evidence of a fusion of Michelangelo and Titian seems...
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