The gifted female artist Marietta Robusti was the daughter of which painter?
Marietta Robusti Marietta Robusti Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as "Tintoretta". The only known primary source for details of Marietta Robusti’s life is Carlo Ridolfi’s "Life of Tintoretto", first published in 1642, although she is mentioned briefly in Raffaelo Borghini’s "Il Riposo della Pitura e della Scultura" of 1584. These two sources disagree on the year of her birth: according to Borghini, she was born in 1555, but Carlo Ridolfi indicates that she was born in 1560. Marietta Robusti was probably born in
Marietta Robusti Robusti and her female contemporaries gained access to the art world through their artist fathers or brothers. Robusti's artistic training consisted of serving an apprenticeship in the collaborative environment of her father’s workshop, where she probably contributed to her father’s paintings with backgrounds and figure blocking, as was the usual distribution of labor in painting workshops of the time. Though Robusti's social and economic autonomy was no greater than other artisan women she had quite a following, changing the ideals of femininity within the arts. After her death, Carlo Ridolfi stated she was one of the most illustrious women of