1994 – 400 years after the death of Tintoretto Proof

Silver: 835/1000

Diameter: 31.4 mm.

Weight: 14.6 Gr.

Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (Venice, April 29, 1519 – Venice, May 31, 1594), was an Italian painter, one of the greatest exponents of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. The nickname "Tintoretto" derived from the paternal occupation, dyer of fabrics.

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Venice, plaque on the house
"Robust" is actually a nickname inherited from his father, who, during the War of the League of Cambrai had vigorously defended the doors of Padua against the imperial troops. Recently Miguel Falomir, curator of the Prado museum in Madrid, has shown that the real surname was "Comin"; the discovery was made public on the occasion of the retrospective of Tintoretto at the Prado, open from 29 January 2007. This assumption, however, is misleading, because it is based on the genealogy of the late-seventeenth century "family Tintoretta" compiled, with probable fraudulent intent, by Sebastiano Casser, last heir of the painter for having married the daughter Octavia. [Citation needed]

For his phenomenal energy in painting he was nicknamed "The furious" ] and his dramatic use of perspective and light it did consider the precursor of Baroque art.