As Peter Russell explains, Jacopo Robusti—known as Tintoretto, the “little dyer”—was driven by a noble conception of art and an unrelenting personal ambition. Over the door of his studio, he set down his creed: Il disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano: “Michelangelo’s drawing and Titian’s colour”. He worked with furious intensity, often by night as well as by day, producing vast narrative paintings charged with dramatic energy and physical strain.

This trail takes you to his greatest works—monumental canvases and ceilings that still dominate the churches and scuole they were made for.

R/ Self-Portrait, Victoria and Albert Museum