Domenico Tintoretto

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Domenico Tintoretto

DatesBiographical dates: 1560 - 1635 dead: dead 1635 born: born 1560

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BiographyBiography: Domenico Tintoretto was the son of Jacopo Tintoretto. He was trained by his father and began to assist him in his workshop at an early age. Domenico was based in Venice, making only short stays in Ferrara and Mantua. In 1576, at the age of seventeen, he was admitted to the Venetian painters’ guild. He began his career helping his father with the paintings commissioned for the Sala del Consiglio and Sala del Senato in the Doges’ Palace in Venice. He later worked independently at the palace, on the Sala dello Scrutigno and the Sala del Maggior Consiglio. Domenico received religious commissions, including a Last Supper and Crucifixion (1583) for Sant’ Andrea della Zirada and a Marriage of the Virgin for San Giorgio Maggiore. He was a renowned portrait painter, his portraits including those of Queen Margaret of Austria, consort of Philip III of Spain, and members of the ruling families of Mantua and Ferrara, together with doges, cardinals and noblemen.

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