Marietta Robusti (? - ) was a female Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. Trained by her father, Jacopo Tintoretto, she worked in his studio and gained fame for her portrait work. She was known as La Tintoretta after her father.
Robusti was invited by both Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (–) and King King Philip II of Spain () to work at their court, but her father would not allow it. Although she painted many portraits in her day, few have been preserved and others may be wrongly attributed to other artists since only one of her paintings was signed.
She was married to Mario Augusta, a Venetian jeweler who agreed to live in the family home, because her father could not be parted from her. She was trained in music, to sing and play the lute. She died in childbirth four years after her marriage, around age
Robusti is one of very few known women artists of this period, a group that included Sofonisba Anguissola, Lucia Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Diana Scultori Ghisi.
Biography
The earliest source for the details of Marietta Robusti’s life is Carlo Ridolfi’s Life of Tinto
Marietta Robusti was the daughter of a famous father, the Venetian painter Jacopi Robusti, more commonly known by his nickname, Tintoretto ("little dyer," from the Italian tintore--his father had been a dyer by trade). For all that Marietta Robusti was the daughter of a famous father, few details of her life are certain, not even the year of her birth. The earliest reference to her is found in Raffaelo Borghini's Il Riposo, published in The Florentine writer and art critic knew Tintoretto and his family, and in his discussion of art, artists, and art collectors, he includes a brief paragraph about the painter's daughter, Marietta, claiming that she is "known to all" as la Tintoretta. Borghini also indicates that, at the time of his writing, Robusti is some twenty-eight years old, which would make her year of birth about The second early source for the life of Marietta Robusti is a brief chapter (just two pages) in Carlo Ridolfi's Le Maraviglie dell'arte: overo le vite de gl'illustri
Sono poche le notizie pervenuteci su Marietta Robusti, la figlia primogenita di Jacopo Robusti, detto il Tintoretto, nata tra il ed il da una relazione extraconiugale del pittore e da questi molto amata. Ne parla Carlo Ridolfi, nella sua opera dedicata alla "Vita di Giacopo Robusti detto il TIntoretto", pubblicata nel Si sa che Marietta, legatissima al padre, apprese l'arte della pittura recandosi nella sua bottega e vedendolo lavorare. Ebbe sette fratelli, nati dal matrimonio di Jacopo con Faustina Episcopi e due di questi furono messi a bottega per imparare anch'essi l'arte della pittura, ma non riuscirono a raggiungere il suo livello tecnico ed artistico. La ragazza era ancora molto giovane ed era già piuttosto nota a Venezia per i suoi lavori, quando fu commissionato alla bottega paterna il ritratto di Ottavio Strada, figlio del commerciante Jacopo. Il dipinto, datato , è firmato dal Tintoretto, in qualità di capo bottega ma, benché l'attribuzione sia incerta, si pensa che si debba in buona parte alla mano di Marietta. Marietta Robusti was a painter of the Italian Renaissance born in Venice (probably in the year ). She was the eldest daughter of the famous painter Jacopo Robusti, better known as Tintoretto, for this reason she is sometimes referred to as Tintoretta. Robustti lived in Venice all her life, her artistic training consisted in serving an apprenticeship in her father’s workshop, there she probably contributed to his paintings with backgrounds and figure blocking, as it was the usual distribution of the labour in painting workshops of that time. The only known primary source for details of Marieta Robusti’s life and career is the book Life of Tintoretto by Carlo Ridolfi, this book was first published in She is also mentioned, very briefly, in Raffaelo Borghini’s Il Riposo della Pintura e della Scultura of The two sources disagree on the year of her birth: according to Borghini it was in , and according to Carlo Ridolfi it was in The conventions of the time dictated that women could learn art, but their works should remain in the privacy of the domestic sphere, they were not welcome in the public world of art sale. Robusti, as most of her female contemporaries
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Marietta Robusti, la Tintoretta (death of her father, 31 May )
A "self-portrait" long attributed
to Marietta Robusti,
Uffizi Gallery
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Marietta Robusti. Autiritratto (Museo degli Uffizi, Firenze) Tintoretto (Marietta Robusti).
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