It’s an immense task to try to capture the essence of God’s creation, although one artist made a powerful attempt.
Jacopo “Il Tintoretto” Robusti (1518–1594) apprenticed in the workshop of the leading Venetian artist at that time, Titian. A 2019 retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington marked the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth.
“Legend has it that when Jacopo Tintoretto was 12 years old, he was so good at drawing that he rattled Titian,” Susan Stamberg wrote in an article covering the exhibit for National Public Radio’s Oregon Public Broadcast. “As the story goes—the old master gone away for several days, and when he came back he found some of Tintoretto’s drawings.”…