Aretino in the studio of tintoretto biography
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Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto (1848)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered han själv a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.
Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of David. In 1802 he made his Salon debut, and won the Prix dem Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles. bygd the time he departed in 1806 for his residency in Rome, his style—revealing his close study of Italian and Flemish Renaissance masters—was fully developed,
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Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto
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Jean Auguste Dominique IngresFrench
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue inGallery 957
This small oil painting depicts an interaction between the artist Tintoretto and the literary critic and satirist Pietro Aretino, two cultural figures of sixteenth century Venice. The episode, real or apocryphal, was originally documented by Carlo Ridolfi in his Life of Tintoretto (1642). Ingres portrays the moment when Tintoretto feigns violence towards Aretino, whom he had invited to his studio to sit for a portrait. Aretino, shown in the pose of the martyr St. Francis receiving the stigmata, momentarily fears danger before recognizing the gesture as Tintoretto’s playful revenge for Aretino’s criticism of his work.
Painted in 1848 for Marcotte Genlis, this picture is Ingres’s second version of the subject, the original dating to 1815. Ingres frequently copied his own pai
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This small-format painting depicts a seemingly apocryphal episode of the life of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556). This famous Renaissance author based in Venice wrote pamphlets which struck fear into the hearts of the kings and powerful people of his time. In order to buy his silence after a military defeat, Emperor Charles V is purported to have sent him a gold chain, which Aretino, sitting nonchalantly in an armchair, is seen here disdainfully weighing in his hand. The imperial envoy has his sword in his hand, outraged by such insolence. Aretino's only response would indeed have been that this was "a very small gift for such great folly".
By choosing this subject, Ingres is making a statement about artists not being under the control of the powers that be. This composition shows the popularity of anecdotal illustrations of episodes from the lives of painters or writers from the past during the first half of the 19th century. Ingres plays