Tintoretto Dies in Venice

1594

The Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto for his father's dyer's trade, died at seventy-five after decades of furious canvas production in the Scuola di San Rocco. His enormous, crowded, stormy paintings had defined Venetian Mannerism. Venice mourned the last titan of its pictorial century. His enormous Paradise in the Doge's Palace remained the world's largest oil painting for centuries.