Tintoretto

tin-to-ret'to (1518-1594), a Venetian painter. He was a native of Venice. His father was a dyer, in Italian, a tintoretto, by trade. The young Tintoretto studied with Titian. It is considered that he had a knowledge of color from his father's trade and a knowledge of drawing from Michelangelo. He painted so rapidly as to gain the name of Il Furioso or the madman. His paintings are represented in the galleries of Florence, Madrid, London, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Paris, and especially in Venice, his native state. Paradise, in the palace of the Doges, has the honor of being the largest oil painting known. Ruskin gave Tintoretto place among the world's great painters, but this is not the popular verdict. See Titian; Michelangelo