Tintoretto el greco biography
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Tintoretto
Italian painter (–)
For other uses, see Tintoretto (disambiguation).
Jacopo Robusti[a] (late September or early October [2]&#;&#; 31 May ), best known as Tintoretto (TIN-tə-RET-oh; Italian:[tintoˈretto], Venetian:[tiŋtoˈɾeto]), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso (Italian for 'the Furious'). His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.[3]
Life
[edit]The years of apprenticeship
[edit]Tintoretto was born in Venice in His father, Battista, was a dyer – tintore in Italian and tintor in Venetian; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy".[4] Tintoretto is known to h
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El Greco
Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance (–)
This article is about the artist of the Spanish Renaissance. For other uses, see El Greco (disambiguation).
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, IPA:[ðoˈminikosθeotoˈkopulos]; 1&#;October &#;&#; 7&#;April ),[2] most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation:[elˈɡɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was a nickname,[a] and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.
El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done.[6] In , he moved to Ro
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Domenikos Theotokopulos
Called El Greco (The Greek), Theotokópoulos’ masterpieces are often regarded as the work genius. With this classification comes the association, or assumption, that his brilliance was also madness, as is often the case with genius. Historical rumors aside, El Greco was the forerunning master of the Spanish Renaissance, although he was born in Crete and also worked in Venice and Rome.
His elaborate expressiveness was a style that bridged ancient Byzantine traditions to an abstracted precursor to the movement of cubism almost four centuries later. As a defiant artist, El Greco often came at odds with his patrons and critics of the time, making him an intuitive painter who did not appease anyone in his creations. Of one of his commissions, the artist han själv even proclaimed, “As surely as the rate of payment fryst vatten inferior to the value of my sublime work, so will my name go down to posterity as one of the greatest geniuses of Spanish painting.” (Getty Museum)
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