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Tintoretto

American  
[tin-tuh-ret-oh, teen-taw-ret-taw] / ˌtɪn təˈrɛt oʊ, ˌtin tɔˈrɛt tɔ /

noun

  1. Il Jacopo Robusti, 1518–94, Venetian painter.


Tintoretto British  
/ tintoˈretto, ˌtɪntəˈrɛtəʊ /

noun

  1. Il (il). original name Jacopo Robusti. 1518–94, Italian painter of the Venetian school. His works include Susanna bathing (?1550) and the fresco cycle in the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice (from 1564)

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The inaugural exhibition will feature 650 of the more than 150,000 pieces Patrimonio Nacional manages, including works from Velázquez, Goya, Caravaggio, Titian and Tintoretto.

From Washington Times • May 22, 2023

He finds Carpaccio, more than Tintoretto, “sailed nearer to perfection,” though he feels no need to dwell on the point, “his fame being brighter to-day,” James wrote in 1882, “than it has ever been.”

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

European paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and other artists in the Western canon echo in his work, submerged within Modernist forms.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Save Venice only discovered the works by Giulia Lama in the Church of San Marziale, when they were conserving an early Tintoretto there, and the conservator mentioned the paintings by Lama above it.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

The great Italian painters were all represented: Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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