Tintoretto was the ultimate Venetian. Venice practically oozes the spirit of the artist, whose giant and somewhat manic artworks cover a substantial portion of the floating city’s most opulent ...

Legend has it that when Jacopo Tintoretto was 12 years old, he was so good at drawing that he rattled Titian — the master artist of Venice, 30 years his senior. Young Tintoretto was an apprentice in ...

This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian Renaissance painter Jacobo Tintoretto—but despite his undeniable Old Master pedigree, the artist falls short of household name ...

I thought very carefully about how to review the National Gallery’s messy new Tintoretto show. I respect everyone involved and wrote two pieces about the show’s majestic incarnation in Venice earlier ...

Titian scorned him as an upstart, but the young Venetian knew more about color than anyone else. It’s the 500th birthday of Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, and Venice is celebrating his genius, ...

VENICE, Italy — A Venetian cloth dyer's son, Tintoretto spent his entire career in Venice, becoming widely considered the last great painter of the Renaissance. The lagoon city's churches and palazzi ...

A two-year conservation project has revealed the complicated development of a painting by the 16th-century Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto, which goes back on public display in Warwickshire, UK on ...

Among the gripping moments in the National Gallery of Art’s exhilarating Tintoretto exhibition is a small detail that seems to project beyond the limits of a painting on canvas. It is an alliance of ...

Inside there are fewer than a dozen people, and all around you, in the half-light, are some of the boldest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, depicting the life of Christ with a directness you have ...

VENICE, Italy — So you are a young college student, American, on your first whistle-stop tour of Europe. You have fought through the multitudes in front of the Mona Lisa and “Las Meninas,” tried to ...