ABSTRACT
Marietta Tintoretta (ca. 1552–ca. 1590), daughter of the great Jacopo Tintoretto, was herself a renowned artist, admired by her contemporaries, especially for her portraits, and sought after as court painter by rulers including King Philip II of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. Despite early acclaim and a biography by Carlo Ridolfi (1648), today not a single painting can be securely identified as by her hand. This chapter addresses this conundrum, reviewing the documentary evidence of Marietta’s life (including important documents discovered within the last two decades), revisiting the scholarly literature, and evaluating works that could potentially be attributed to her, based on an ongoing reconsideration of the oeuvre of Jacopo Tintoretto and his circle.
