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Tintoretto

[ tin-tuh-ret-oh; Italian teen-taw-ret-taw ]

noun

  1. Il [eel], Jacopo Robusti, 1518–94, Venetian painter.


Tintoretto

/ tintoˈretto; ˌtɪntəˈrɛtəʊ /

noun

  1. Tintoretto, Il15181594MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Il (il). original name Jacopo Robusti. 1518–94, Italian painter of the Venetian school. His works include Susanna bathing (?1550) and the fresco cycle in the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice (from 1564)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The great Italian painters were all represented: Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto.

Among the numerous depictions of the scene is an enormous, 10-foot-wide version of the engagement created soon after it took place in 1571 that has been attributed to Tintoretto.

But still, the place really was a stunner — all marble floors with massive Tintoretto masterpieces affixed to the walls and to the ceiling.

You can’t help but be overwhelmed by a painter like Tintoretto or Titian, but that’s a bit like being impressed by Beethoven.

He finds Carpaccio, more than Tintoretto, “sailed nearer to perfection,” though he feels no need to dwell on the point, “his fame being brighter to-day,” James wrote in 1882, “than it has ever been.”

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