Tintoretto

Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1518–1594), was a Renaissance painter whose furious speed and bold brushwork earned him the nickname il Furioso. The son of a dyer, whence his name, he was dismissed from Titian's studio after a few days, reportedly out of jealousy, and taught himself drawing after Michelangelo day and night.

His 1548 Miracle of the Slave brought commissions. When Paolo Veronese took the prestigious commissions he wanted in 1551, he offered the Madonna dell'Orto two colossal 14.5-metre canvases.

In 1564, asked for ceiling sketches by the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, he secretly installed a finished painting as a gift it could not refuse, later painting fifty works there. After Veronese died in 1588 the Doge's Palace Paradise commission passed to him, finished with his son Domenico. His daughter Marietta died in 1590; he died in May 1594 and was buried beside her.