Marietta Robusti

Marietta Robusti, called La Tintoretta, (c. 1554/55 in Venice, † 1590 in Venice) was an Italian painter.

Life

Marietta Robusti was the eldest daughter of the painter Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto and Faustina Episcopi. Her half brother was Domenico Tintoretto. She was the pride of her father, who personally took care of their education. From him she learned painting and drawing. They must have been very talented, because their skills were highly praised at an early stage. An early, outstanding example of her talent has been preserved in a drawing of about 1565 that shows in black and white chalk the head of a " Vitellius - bust " on blue paper. The sheet was in the 1990s in a Milanese private collection and is labeled " This head is from the hand of Miss Marietta! " Signed.

In order to teach painting in practice, he let her watch him at his work and took it well when he stated public contracts. When she was little, he is said to have often disguised as a boy, because she would not have had as a girl anywhere access. Marietta to have had a good grasp and quickly learned. Soon she will have her father actively helped with their line should not have been too different from that of the Father. As early as the 1567/68 they should have portrayed around the age of fourteen years, the famous Venetian art dealer Jacopo Strada. In addition to her painting and drawing training was Jacopo Marietta by the then famous Neapolitan Giulio Zacchino in singing, teaching lute and Spinettspiel.

The greatest progress they made ​​in the painting, so they enjoyed a reputation as an excellent painter soon. For the Venetian nobility, it was considered fashionable to have to portray La Tintoretta how to Marietta lovingly called in accordance with the stage name of her father. Her talent was apparently so great that her fame also came soon far beyond the city limits. She was invited by the greatest princes of Europe, with a request to portray them, including by Emperor Maximilian II, King Philip II of Spain and the Archduke Ferdinand. But her father, who liked not separate himself from her and whose workshop was dependent on their labor, forbade her to leave his house. For this reason he allowed her too late to marry. In Marietta's husband there was a goldsmith named Marco Augusta (according to other sources: Jacopo d' Augusta), Jacopo only had to insure that the couple would live in his house. It is believed that it has acted as an arranged marriage, as the goldsmith in Venice enjoyed great prestige, from the now Jacopo Tintoretto could benefit.

Against 1590 Marietta, died suddenly at the age of about 35 years. The causes of death are unknown, but is believed that she died giving birth to her child. Her death hit his father so hard that he is of it, would never recover.

Works

Today, Marietta can assign only a few plants. Many of them were long regarded as works of other masters, mostly as images of her father, such as "Portrait of a man with boys " in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, which was regarded as the undisputed work of Jacopo Tintoretto to 1920 and is assigned today more and more of his daughter. A "Portrait of a Lady with Dog " was regarded as the work of El Greco.

Selections

• Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi Self-Portrait at the Spinet

• Self-portrait.
• Portrait of a Venetian Woman.
• Portrait of a Venetian Woman.

• Self-portrait.

• Portrait of a lady as Flora. ( attributed to )

Afterlife

Her short life, especially the story of her death inspired the 19th century many painters and poets to his own works. 1843 Léon Cogniet painted the painting " Tintoretto, his dead daughter painting " of the Victor Fournel 1884 a widespread Wood engraving anfertigte. 1845, written by the painter Luigi Marta 's play " Tintoretto and his daughter " will be premiered in Milan. Against 1856/57 could be Edgar Degas painting of the Cogniets to a separate study the same subject anregen.1859 published in Venice in the story " The daughter of Tintoretto " by Giuseppe Sacchi.