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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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Reynolds applied a touch of Tintoretto to Townshend’s white-highlighted red robes of office.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

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

You can’t help but be overwhelmed by a painter like Tintoretto or Titian, but that’s a bit like being impressed by Beethoven.

From Washington Post 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

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

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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