A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Tintoretta, (Marietta)

by Mary Matilda Betham

TINTORETTA (MARIETTA), of Venice, Daughter and Disciple of the famous Tintoret;

For a long time dressed as a man. She assisted her father in painting: she excelled in singing and music; and was so beloved by her father, that he could not bear to part with her, though the Emperor, the king of Spain, and other princes, invited her to their courts. She was always using her pencil, in portraits of ladies and cavaliers, copied exactly the works of her father, and made others of her own invention. But she died in the flower of her age, 1590, bitterly lamented by her father, and her husband, who was a German.

Abec. Pitt.

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