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...Jacopo Robusti (1518-94) was known as Tintoretto because his father was a Venetian dyer. An admirer, never a friend, of the great Titian, he painted innumerable murky powerful portraits of the Doges and Senators of Venice, great intricate murals. In an age when all artists were commercial artists he was one of the first to adopt an advertising slogan. Outside his studio was an inscription...
...photographs is made up of reproductions of the work of the Italian school of the sixteenth century, among those represented being Titian, Cogliari or Paul Veronese, Bellini, Robusti and Rosseo de Rossi...
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