Tintoretto

                Tintoretto, born Jacopo Comin, was born in Venice in 1518.  He was the oldest or twenty one children, and Tintoretto’s father who was a dyer, or tintore, which gave reasoning for the nickname of Tintoretto, or little dyer.  Tintoretto ended up going to the Venetian School, where he learned his skill of painting.  After researching some of his works, I realized that I saw one of his paintings at the Louvre in Paris.  This painting is The Coronation of the Virgin.  I found it to be very pleasing to the eye in many ways.   This painting’s main subject is obvious to be the Virgin Mary, and it is the time in Christianity, where Mary is being accepted into the kingdom of heaven.  This painting has many subjects including bishops, saints, martyrs, and popes.  It is a beautiful painting in the way that it shows movement, and the audiences’ eye is able to skate across the canvas seeing everyone in heaven, with Mary at the highest point alongside Christ.  The scene involves her coronation, which is a beautiful moment in the stories of Mary’s life, and death.  This painting says a lot for how important Mary was in the story of Christianity.  This Baroque painting is very beautiful, with a lot of movement and color.

Coronation of the Virgin

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Giulio Romano

                                     Wiki commons: Self portrait Giuliano Romano

Romano was started out as one of Raphael’s students.  He was one that was very good at what he was learning from his teacher.  As Vasari states “there was no one who imitated Raphael more closely.”  This is a very important compliment from Vasari, because Raphael was one of the most impressive painters.  Giuliano was born in the end of the quattrocento, and died when he was middle aged.  Vasari tells us that Romano was so well liked by Raphael not only by his talent, but but his personality, confidence, and boldness.  He states that “one could not have loved him more had he been his son.”  His genius as a student was learning from his teacher some of the more difficult things in painting, like drawing in perspective, and to measure buildings, and work up plans.  Being such a good painter, once Raphael died, Romano was in charge of finishing paintings that were left unfinished.  This man was a great painter who was recognized by many for being able to paint so closely to what his teacher was able to accomplish in his own lifetime of painting.