Tintoretto

Tintoretto 

Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti) was born in Venice in 1518, though most accounts say in 1512. His father, Battista Robusti, was a dyer, or tintore; hence the son got the nickname of Tintoretto, little dyer, or dyer's boy, which is Anglicized as Tintoret. In childhood Jacopo, a born painter, began daubing on the dyer's walls; his father, noticing his bent, took him round, still in boyhood, to the studio of Titian, to see how far he could be trained as an artist.
We may suppose this to have been towards 1533, when Titian was already (according to the ordinary accounts) fifty-six years of age. 

Ridolfi is our authority for saying that Tintoretto had only been ten days in the studio when Titian sent him home once and for all. 
The reason, according to the same writer, is that the great master observed some very spirited drawings, which he learned to be the production of Tintoret; and it is inferred that he became at once jealous of so promising a scholar. 
This, however, is mere conjecture; and perhaps it may be fairer to suppose that the drawings exhibited so much independence of manner that Titian judged that young Robusti, although he might become a painter, would never be properly a pupil. 

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