Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes the spirit of the artist, whose giant and somewhat manic artworks cover a substantial portion of the floating city’s most opulent ...

This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian Renaissance painter Jacobo Tintoretto—but despite his undeniable Old Master pedigree, the artist falls short of household name ...

Legend has it that when Jacopo Tintoretto was 12 years old, he was so good at drawing that he rattled Titian — the master artist of Venice, 30 years his senior. Young Tintoretto was an apprentice in ...

In April, a critic for the National Review took the National Gallery of Art to task for its Tintoretto exhibition, arguing that it was an insufficiently comprehensive overview of the great ...

Titian scorned him as an upstart, but the young Venetian knew more about color than anyone else. It’s the 500th birthday of Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, and Venice is celebrating his genius, ...

There is a freshness about the portraits in the small and beautiful exhibition of Tintoretto’s paintings and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that speaks to what appears to be the artist’s ...

Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is recorded ...

Jacopo Robusti, the wide-eyed eldest child of a humble dyer—or tintore in Italian, and so named Tintoretto—was born 500 years ago. “Tintoretto: Birth of a Genius” at the Musée du Luxembourg (through ...

A two-year conservation project has revealed the complicated development of a painting by the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which goes back on public display in Warwickshire, UK on ...

Among the gripping moments in the National Gallery of Art’s exhilarating Tintoretto exhibition is a small detail that seems to project beyond the limits of a painting on canvas. It is an alliance of ...

It's taken 500 years, but Tintoretto, one of the great masters of the Renaissance and a giant of European art, has finally made his debut in the US. For the first time, some of his finest paintings ...