Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto: The Renaissance Artist Of Modernity?
<p>According to standard opinion Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael were the supreme artists of the sixteenth century; yet often during the last four hundred years, viewers have gazed in awe and surprise at works by Tintoretto and wondered if he <em>might</em> be the greatest painter of all. I am one such person. The paintings of Jacopo Tintoretto come as a revelation, not a divinely sponsored act for me, but a purely humanistic and artistic one.</p>
<p>Tintoretto was a painter of daring originality and dazzling technical command. Yet the full measure of Tintoretto’s colossal achievement can only be grasped in Venice, the city of his birth where he worked for his entire career.</p>
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