Un frammento di un quadro di Domenico Tintoretto.

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"[...] the World has been able to certify that it is more difficult for the Tintorettos to be reborn than the Apelli, since the things he did in his youth gave everyone cause for admiration".
This is how Carlo Ridolfi, perhaps the most famous biographer of Venetian Renaissance and Mannerist artists, pronounced on Domenico Tintoretto, the little-known son of his much more famous father Jacopo. His sister Marietta, known as Tintoretta, had also embarked on a painting career that was, however, soon interrupted due to her untimely death.

Domenico Robusti, known as Tintoretto after his father Jacopo, was born in Venice in 1560.Until his father's death in 1594, his works were and still are confused with those of Jacopo, mainly due to the commissions that were mostly sought from the elderly painter. After that date, however, although the artist was finally able to give his best, he perhaps lacked the creative vein that had undoubtedly characterised the years of his youth. Perhaps, having taken his father's workshop entirely upon himself did not help him to emerge as he could have.Worthy of mention is the majestic canvas executed

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