Pintor italiano tintoretto biography
Tintoretto, cuyo nombre original era Jacopo Comin, fue un gran pintor de la escuela veneciana, nacido en esa ciudad el 29 de septiembre de y fallecido.
Tintoretto, de nome verdaderu Jacopo Comin (circa , Venecia – 31 de mayu de , Venecia), foi unu de los grandes pintores de la escuela veneciana y.!
Jacopo Tintoretto.
The last great artist of the Italian Renaissance.
Tintoretto in the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice.
In Tintoretto began his association with the Scuola di San Rocco, where he worked for over twenty years and decorated the building with more than sixty vast canvases.
His theme was the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ. These pictures are executed with tremendous freedom and include an enormous Crucifixion scene.
Years ago in Venice, a star was born.Although Tintoretto was already recognised as a master painter his legacy is inevitably associated with this vast body of work.
The following six paintings are a small example of Tintoretto’s enormous body of work in the Scuola di San Rocco.
They are a narrative of the passion of Christ beginning with his arrest, his crucifixion, and ending with his ascent into heaven.
The narrative begins with the arrest of Christ as he prays in the Garden of Gethsemane.
He is then brought to judgement before Pontius Pilate where he is