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Tintoretto

Tintoretto (tēntōret'tō) [key], 1518–94, Venetian painter, whose real name was Jacopo Robusti. Tintoretto is considered one of the greatest painters in the Venetian tradition. He was called Il Tintoretto [little dyer] from his father's trade.

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Illicit arousal: the erotic subtext of Tintoretto's Tarquin and Lucretia.(Jacopo Tintoretto)(Critical essay) (Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art)

Motion, energy, and revelation: Tintoretto's Last Suppers.(Critical essay) (TriQuarterly)

Rivals in Venice: an ambitious attempt to chart the way that the careers of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese intertwined presents all three artists in a novel--and not always flattering--light.(EXHIBITIONS) (Apollo)

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