Tintoretto

Tintoretto, byname of Jacopo Robusti, (born c. 1518, Venice [Italy]—died May 31, 1594, Venice), great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school and one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. His paintings include Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars (c. 1555), the Mannerist Christ and the Adulteress (c. 1545–48), and his masterpiece of 1592–94, the Last Supper of San Giorgio Maggiore. Increasingly concerned with the drama of light and space, he achieved in his mature work (e.g., The Adoration of the Golden Calf, c. 1560) a luminous visionary quality.