Tintoretto
By: Jacque Harrington
Biography
- Born in 1518 in Venice Italy
- Spent most of his life in Venice
- Trained in a Venetian workshop during the 1530's
- His dad was a Venetian cloth dryer so he spent most of his time helping his dad out
- His works were mainly departed from Titan's naturalistic idiom
- His early works were Christ Among The Doctors which he made from 1541-1542
- Tintoretto did not select between patrons instead he fulfilled local demands
- He painted a lot of Humanism and Classicism because he created a lot of self portraits and focused on religion
Female Portrait
The Miracle of Saint Augustine
The Rescue of Princess Arsinoe
Female Portrait
- This piece is called Female Portrait
- This was created in the late 16th century
- There is no specifics on where this can be found
- The significance of this piece is it depicts what a woman was like during the Renaissance
This piece is a fairly happy upper class women in the Renaissance period getting a self portrait
The “ism” that is most closely related to this piece is humanism because it is focusing on humans and their “emotion” as seen in the picture
I find this piece interesting because it stands out from everything else. It comes across as a piece that is not commonly found at least from my experience as an artist
If you are interested in finding this piece click this link and select the first picture you see Female Portrait Link
Works Cited
Artstor. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.
"Tintoretto." Biography in Context. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.