Word: robustious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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