Tintoretto
Tintoretto (1518-94). Venetian painter, born Jacopo Robusti. His nickname `Tintoretto’ derived from his father’s occupation of dyer (tintore). Tintoretto spent most of his life in Venice, where he undertook commissions for religious orders. Working in a style that owed much to Michelangelo and to Titian, he painted religious and mythological subjects as well as many portraits. His most ambitious work was a series of paintings on the life of Christ in the School of Saint Rocco.
