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Tintoretto was a Venetian painter, one of the artists of the late 16th century. His work features forms of Mannerism and influenced baroque art.Tintoretto
was born Jacopo Robusti. As a young man he studied briefly with Venetian master Titian, who soon discharged him from his studio. The animosity between the
two painters lasted throughout their careers. Unlike Titian, who worked and traveled throughout Italy, Tintoretto lived and worked exclusively in Venice. His work
was done mainly for the churches, religious organizations, and rulers of the city, and for the Venetian republic.In the first decade of his career Tintoretto explored
diverse sources in search of a style. He studied modes of figure drawing and composition in Florentine Mannerist paintings, in the work of Michelangelo. He
incorporated these various techniques, with striking results, in his paintings of the 1540s...