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Marietta Robusti Tintoretto

Marietta Robusti Tintoretto, from Venice was apprenticed to her father, the painter Jacobo Rubusti, known as Tintoretto. She was also a musician. Marietta Robusti was known as La Tintoretta, a play on her father's name. She died at 30 in childbirth.
Women Artists: Renaissance and Baroque Painters
On this site: an overview of women painters of the 16th-17th centuries, including a list of many of the female painters of the period.
Marietta Robusti Tintoretto
A biography with ten illustrations of her miniatures.
Marietta Robusti Tintoretto
A brief biography of Marietta Robusti Tintoretto, with a thumbnail of "Portrait of an Old Man with a Boy" (clickable for a larger image).
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
A biography of the father of Marietta Robusti Tintoretto, it mentions her briefly near the end.
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