TINTORETTO II., a Venetian painter; real name JACOPO ROBUSTI; re ceived his well-known surname from the fact of his father being a dyer (Tin tore) ; born in Venice in 1512. He studied for a few days under Titian, but soon deserted the studio of the master for some unknown reason, and subsequently became a devoted student of antique 'sculpture, of anatomy, and of the works of Michael Angelo. On the walls of his studio he inscribed the ambitious motto, "Il disegno di Michelangelo ed it colori di Tiziano," and such was the ardor and rapidity of his labor, reflected in the in tensity of his style, that he acquired the nickname of II Furioso. It was admitted by Sebastian del Piombo that Tintoretto could paint as much in two days as he could in as many years. The palaces and churches of Venice were rapidly adorned by him with vivid representations of his torical, mythological, and scriptural sub jects, but only a few of his frescoes sur vive. The only works said to bear his name are : "The Crucifixion," in the Scuola di San Rocco (engraved by Agostino Ca racci), the "Miracle of the Slave" in the Academy, and the "Marriage of Cana" in the Church of Santa Maria della Salute.
His largest work, "Paradise," on the ceil ing of the library in the Doges' palace, is 84% feet by 34, and contains upward of 100 figures. Other famous works are "Belshazzar's Feast," the "Tiburtine Sibyl," "Last Supper," "Worship of the Golden Calf," "Last Judgment," and "Slaughter of the Innocents." About a third of his works are symbolical, and he frequently makes ingenious use of the winged lion of St. Mark. He certainly belongs to the greatest class of painters. Daring and passionate in imagination, Tintoretto sought to vary by dramatic movement the romantic motives of the Venetian school, and brought to perfec tion the poetry of chiaroscuro with some thing of Angelo's sublimity. Tintoretto died in Venice, May 31, 1594. His fa vorite daughter, MARIETTA, who was an excellent portrait painter, died in 1590, but his son, DONIENICO, also a painter, lived till 1637.