What is Tintoretto?
{{Infobox artist | name = Tintoretto | image = Tintorettoselfportrait.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Detail of a self-portrait | birth_name = Jacopo Comin | birth_date = late September or early October 1518 <ref>Tintoretto and De Vecchi 1970, p. 83.</ref> | birth_place = [[Venice]], [[Republic of Venice]], in present-day [[Italy]] | death_date = 31 May 1594, (aged 76) | death_place = Venice, Republic of Venice, in present-day Italy | nationality = Italian | field = Painting | training = | movement = [[Renaissance]] | works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''Tintoretto''' (1518 – 31 May 1594), born '''Jacopo Comin''', was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance art|Renaissance]] painter. He was known by the nickname '''Il Furioso'''. His works are very [[drama]]tic, often depicting muscular figures and a bold use of [[perspective]]. These elements he paints in the [[Mannerist]] style. His use of colour and light, however, is typical of the [[Venetian school (art)|Venetian School]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Zuffi|first=Stefano|title=One Thousand Years of Painting|year=2004|publisher=Electa|location=Milan, Italy|pages=427}}</ref> Tintoretto was from [[Venice]]. He spent most of his life painting there. He was a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He painted [[fresco]]s and other [[mural]]s on the walls and ceilings of several churches and other buildings in Venice, such as the [[Scuola Grande di San Rocco]], the [[Doge's Palace, Venice|Doge's Palace]]. His largest work is ''Il Paradiso'', which dominates the main hall of the Doge's Palace. It is 22.6 x 9.1 metres in size, and is said to be the largest painting ever done on [[canvas]]. ==Related pages== * [[List of Italian painters]] == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == * {{Cite journal | last = Butterfield | first = Andrew | title = Brush with Genius | journal = New York Review of Books | volume = 54 | issue = 7 | publisher = NYREV, Inc. | date = 2007-04-26 | url = http://www.nybo