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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 82 — BOOK VI[60]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594), called Tintoretto from the trade of his father, a dyer, received his first important order in 1546, for the decoration of Santa Maria dell' Orto. In 1560, he began to paint the Scuola di San Rocco and the Doges' Palace and, in the same year, seems to have taken Titian's place as Court painter to the Doges.—T.

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