The art is always present! The renaissance , the baroque….. gives birth to an another paintre. Today we know Jacopo Robusti, of Venetian origin , his name shines with 29th April 1519. He is know in art as Tintoretto being one of the great painters from Venetian school , the last big master that belong to Renaissance . His name ” Tintoretto” comes from paternal work( painter of cloth).
Tintoretto, the angry!
For his phenomenal energy in painting , for the use dramatic from the perspective of light he comes named ” the angry”. How he know the painting, his rapports in art? Study the painting to atelier by Tiziano and comes repudiated for his talent. A rival for Tiziano? Tintoretto has good rapports with Venetian elites and obtains the approbation of patricians. Talented and the rival for Tiziano he opens an atelier independent to Saint Cassian in district of Saint Paolo.
The works, personal characteristics, prestigious titles?
The first commission is ” Metamorphosis by Ovidiu” in 16 plaques. He comes nominated , revalidated for to School by Rocco with a cycle of paintings represented ” Passion of Jesu” , the painting inspirited from the Marry-s life , ” Saint Roco in prisons ”. In work he has rivalry , enters in competition with Tiziano and with the School Rocco in paintings. In portraits by courtesans in the cloths of heroine by mythology” Leda, Danae, Flora” . He becomes rival again for Veronese for his bravery and for young age . The decorates cycles are for the churches , for the school and for the Ducal Palace where he studying the components, the dynamic of compositions and the portrait by doge Girolamo Priuli. Dynamic and nonconformist ! Dynamic in the illustrated scenes in Glory from Genesis. He present the landscapes innovation in Suzan and the elders, Adoration of calf of golden, Universal Judgement inspirited by Michelangelo , with the Glory from Tiziano, others works( Saint Marco safe a Saracen during a shipwreck, Theft of body by San Marco, Finding of body by Saint Marco, Apollo and Dafne, Apollo and Marsia, Fall by Fetonte, Mercury and Argo, Niobe and sons, Venere, Vulcan and Love, Rat of Europe, Salmon and the Queen by Saba, Vengeance by Sansone, Ecce Homo, Apposition from the cross to Saint Peter and the big works for the church by Saint Giorgio Maggiore, Ducal Palais of Mantova( 8th big canvas prefigurating the beautiful episodes bibles , the protagonist being the Gonzaga family…
In time he enters to make part form prestigious Academy of Art and Draft founded to Florence under the protection by Cosimo I. Arvan says: ” In Tintoretto is the nature, the fantastic vision , troubled almost obsessive , the history is tormented spiritual and religious. The visions don-t ecstatic, contemplative , relaxants, to oppose they are agitated, dramatic, tormented. They do not subside , it is intensification until to paroxysm ”. Into works exist the” pathos of existence”. For preparation the work, he prepare the little theatre in composition and the effect from the light.
The technical and the materials used
For the study in gypsum he is been affectionate to bleu papier that allowed him the dark elements to enter in lightly. He use the stamps more commune of light leaves by gyps and stick into painting on table which given a major lightly to colors. He has the preference for the ground dark for painting the tons clears. The canvas are of linen , utilizing the pieces with the plots varies between them and the evident stitching. After a fever of two week he died to Venice in 1594 , his body comes buried into the church from Madonna of Orto into crypt from Episcopes’ family. His talent comes between the sons: Merietta the first birth ( son illegitimate ) and Domenico a passionate from painting and from literature , chosen for driven the paternal atelier. The end , in art, Tintoretto remain ” the angry” in dynamism of scenes and from the compositions. He bring the torment , the drama, the tragedy, the pathos of existence. He remain an obsessive spiritual, obsessive in tragedy and the capricious visionary. The nature is a fantastic visionary , royal, being the power of dynamism , he explores the colors, he prefers the dark grounds and meditate at power of brillante light. A light , dynamic, angry that storm the world of art.
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