Jacopo Tintoretto  (1519-1594)

• Was an Italian painter.
• His father, Battista, was a dyer – tintore in Italian and tintor in Venetian; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, "little dyer", or "dyer's boy".
• The family was believed to have originated from Brescia, in Lombardy, then part of the Republic of Venice.
• Older studies gave the Tuscan town of Lucca as the origin of the family.
• Tintoretto maintained friendships with many writers and publishers, including Pietro Aretino, who became an important early patron.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Jacopo Tintoretto, Saint Luke the Evangelist, c. 1560-1570.
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