Marco Tintoretto

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Marco Tintoretto (* around 1560/61 in Venice ; † before October 16, 1637 there ; actually Marco Robusti ) was a Venetian painter.

Marco was a son of the painter Jacopo Tintoretto and his wife Faustina Episcopi. He was trained at an early age in his father's workshop and adapted his painting style to that of his father. He is likely to have been a key collaborator in the workshop from a young age and was very likely one of the painters who carried out the “Gonzaga cycle” from 1579/80, whose eight monumental panels are now in the Alte Pinakothek (Inv.-No .: 7302–7309) are located in Munich . In contrast to his brothers Giovanni Battista and Domenico as well as his sister Marietta , he could not gain much from his father's handicraft and preferred a relaxed lifestyle full of fun and adventure. He doesn't seem to have got on well with his brother Domenico, because his father asked Marco in his will, in which he referred to him as Domenico's colleague, to finally make peace with him. Even around 1612, his way of life did not seem to have fundamentally changed, because his mother also noted in her will that she increasingly feared that her son could get more and more on the wrong track. Despite his aversion to painting, he and Domenico took over the management of the father's workshop in 1594, which he held until his death. On September 15, 1635 he made his will, which was opened on October 16, 1637, so that he must have died shortly before.

To date, art history has not yet succeeded in determining his exact share in the works of the Tintoretto workshop, which suggests that he came so close to his father's work that his works can hardly be distinguished from his pictures. In 1929, the art historian Adolfo Venturi first attempted to ascribe some works to him directly. Among these works he counts a Lamentation of Christ ( Washington , National Gallery of Art ; Inv.-No .: 1960.6.37), a Holy Family with Saint Catherine and a donor (formerly Dresden , Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ; Inv.- No .: 267; lost since 1945) and a group portrait ( Besançon , Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon ). All these attributions can currently only be regarded as working hypotheses and cannot be supported either by documentation or by comparative material.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolfo Venturi: Storia dell'arte italiana . Volume 9, part 4, p. 677 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Tintoretto, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robusti, Marco (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1560–1561
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH before October 16, 1637
Place of death Venice