Tintoretto
Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting
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Miracle of the Slave (1547-48). Tintoretto.
Oil on canvas. 416 cm x 544 cm
Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice. Italy
Tintoretto is the great model of the Venetian painting and, for many, the most important representative of the Italian Mannerism.
Mannerism (big part of the 16th century) was characterized by the intention of the artists of openly showing their skills, their style —maniera—. Some of them did it by painting like the great Masters of the Renaissance, and other ones wanted to go beyond, transgressing rules and conventions to create something impressive, new, admirable (when it seemed that nothing could cause astonishment after Leonardo, Michael Angelo and Raphael).
In this search of innovation, that need of generating his own style that showed his skill and generated admiration, Tintoretto created a painting of spectacular effects. It was set in scenographic spaces achieving a huge drama through the use of unbelievable points of view, forced perspectives (exaggerating the use of resources as the foreshortening and the serpentine figure), with strong contrasts of size and brilliant effects of light and color.
All of them are characteristics that announced the Baroque. That is why Tintoretto —whose nickname was Il Furioso (The Furious) for the passion in his paintings— is “a Baroque artist ahead of his time.”
Recommended links:
Characteristic Elements of Venetian School.
The Venetian School of the 16th Century.
Ultramarine Blue in Venetian Painting.
Artistic Movements I: from Classical Antiquity to Rococo.
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