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| Jacopo Tintoretto Temptation of St Anthony (detail) ca. 1577 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Trovaso, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto The Holy Trinity ca. 1561-62 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto St Mark saving a Saracen during a Shipwreck ca. 1562-66 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Miracle of the Slave 1548 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Miracle of the Slave (detail) 1548 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Miracle of the Slave (detail) 1548 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Miracle of the Slave (detail) 1548 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Miracle of the Slave (detail) 1548 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
"With the triumphantly successful Miracle of the Slave for the Scuola Grande di San Marco (1548), Tintoretto became the dominant force in Venetian painting. His mature style is characterized by an emphasis on human figures at once idealized and convincingly real; strong, sometimes violent chiaroscuro; elastic and unstable treatment of space; free, strong brushwork, with an emphasis on line; dynamism of form and pictorial technique; juxtaposition of the spiritual and the mundane; and an emphasis on the surprising and the unexpected."
– from biographical notes at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Jacopo Tintoretto The Deposition ca. 1560 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto The Deposition (detail) ca. 1560 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Madonna dei Camerlenghi (the Virgin enthroned with St Sebastian, St Mark and St Theodore, venerated by Venetian Magistrates and their Secretaries) ca. 1567 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Madonna dei Camerlenghi (detail) ca. 1567 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto St Andrew and St Jerome ca. 1552 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto St George and the Dragon with the Princess and St Louis of Toulouse ca. 1552 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto The Crucifixion 1555 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
"Tintoretto was deeply influence by Titian; he wanted to combine Titian's use of colour with the energised forms of Michelangelo. Tintoretto is usually described as a Mannerist, although his striving for effect is less in the cause of stylishness and more for the sake of narrative drama. He appears to have lived and worked for most of his life in Venice, only once being recorded on a visit outside the city, to Mantua in 1580. After Titian's death Tintoretto, with Veronese, became one of the leading painters in the city, controlling a large workshop."
– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London