Early Life, Family and Training Born Jacopo Robusti around 1518 in Venice, Italy, the man who would become known as Jacopo Tintoretto was shaped by the industrious atmosphere of his home. He was born into a large family of twenty-one children, a household of significant scale. His father, Battista, worked as a dyer, a trade that provided the young Jacopo with an early, intimate familiarity with the chemistry of color and the texture of fabrics. This domestic connection to pigment would eventually inform the visual language of his later canvases. His path toward becoming a painter was largel…