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Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto, was born in Venice in 1519, and according to tradition, after an extremely brief (only a few days, it is said) apprenticeship in Titian\u2019s workshop, was already by the age of twenty established as an independent master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titian\u2019s work was undoubtedly important for his training, but equally the influence of other Venetian painters, together with promptings derived from the nascent mannerist culture and an absorption in Michelangelo\u2019s sculptural work, were crucial to the formation of his painterly language, characterised by rapid brushstrokes, a supple rendering of the human figure and strong chiaroscuro effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before becoming indissolubly linked with the Scuola di San Rocco, where he worked for over twenty years (1564-c1588), Tintoretto had already made his name with a series of masterworks, among them the marvellous\u00a0St Roch Healing the Plague-Stricken<\/em>\u00a0for the\u00a0adjacent church<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to that saint. But it is particularly the interaction between the unforgettable canvases \u2013 more than sixty, featuring episodes from the Old and the New Testaments \u2013 and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco that makes their pairing extraordinary to the point that one cannot call to mind the Scuola without associating it with the poetic impact of these masterpieces. Some critics have gone so far as to suggest that this pairing is Venice\u2019s equivalent to Rome\u2019s Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Detail of Crucifixion, 1565, Sala dell\u2019Albergo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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