tintoretto
IPA: tˈɪntɔrˈɛtoʊ
Root Word: Tintoretto
noun
- Tintoretto (born Jacopo Robusti;According to historian Stefania Mason, the discovery and publication in 2004 of a "fanciful account" in a letter of 1678 to a Spanish art collector from his agent in Venice is responsible for a misconception that Jacopo's surname was Comin.
- Jacopo Tintoretto — famous painter
- a crater on Mercury.
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Examples of "tintoretto" in Sentences
- He helped his father with the dyeing of silks, while he was still a child, and was called "II tintoretto," little dyer.
- He was born in 1518, in the ninth year of our Henry VIII's reign, the son of a dyer, or tintore, named Battista Robusti, and since the young Jacopo Robusti helped his father in his trade he was called the little dyer, or il tintoretto.
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