Marietta Robusti 1560 and died when she was thirty during child birth. She lived in Venice all her life. She was the eldest daughter of the painter Jacopo Robusti, from whom she inherited her nickname, la Tintoretta (translated as "little dyer girl", after Jacopo’s father’s occupation as a "tintore", or dyer). She is thus variously known as Marietta Robusti, Marietta Tintoretto, and la Tintoretta. She was followed by three brothers and four sisters. Since conventions of the time dictated that women remained in the privacy of the domestic sphere and were not welcome in the public world of art production and sale,
Jacopo Zoboli Jacopo Zoboli Jacopo Zoboli (1661(?) - c. 1765) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Modena about the year 1700. His first patron, Marquis Taddeo Rangone sent him to study first under Francesco Stringa, then to Bologna. He went to Rome, where he died about 1765. He painted an altarpiece for the church of Sant'Eustachio in Rome. He painted altarpieces and portraits, and is said to have etched fifteen plates dealing with "Life of Aloysius Gonzaga and Stanislaus Kostka". He also made colored etchings of Bracciano, Tivoli, Visa, and Brescia. He is said to have