Marietta Robusti

Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto (Jacobo Robusti) and sometimes, is referred to as Tintoretta.

Robusti is mentioned briefly in Il Riposo della Pitura e della Scultura by Raffaelo Borghini in 1584. The only known primary source for details of Marietta Robusti's life, however, is in Life of Tintoretto by Carlo Ridolfi that was published in 1642 about her father. 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. She probably was born in 1560 since her death during childbirth is recorded as at the age of thirty in 1590.

She lived in Venice all her life. She was the eldest daughter of the painter Jacopo Robusti, from whom she inherited not only his aptitude, but also her nickname, la Tintoretta (translated as female "little dyer", after the occupation of her grandfather as a tintore or dyer). Because of this, she is known variously as Marietta Robusti, Marietta Tintoretto, or "la Tintoretta". The name of her mother is not known.