Tiberio Tinelli

The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice and Mantua. Work by Tiberio Tinelli is recorded in the collections of Kunsthistorisches Museum, National Gallery Prague and Civic Museums of Padua.

• Honorific Prefix — Cavalier • Born — 1587 • Birthplace — Venice, Republic of Venice • Died — 22 May 1639 • Place of death — Venice, Republic of Venice • Field — Painting • Training — Giovanni Contarini Leandro Bassano • Movement — Baroque

Tiberio Tinelli was born in Venice in 1587. He was a pupil of Giovanni Contarini, a pupil of the late Titian, and Leandro Bassano and they, and late Mannerist painters, were the earliest influences on his art. Later he moved towards the freer and more introspective portrait style of Anthony van Dyck, Simon Vouet and Nicolas Régnier, all of whom were active in Italy between 1622 and 1625. His fame was based on his portraits. He was well known for his portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice, whom he often painted in historical dress. Documentary records show that he also painted numerous religious and secular works but the only surviving example of these is St. Alvise, Bishop of Toulouse (c. 1616; Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia), painted as an organ shutter for Santa Maria della Celestia, Venice. His portrait of Paolo Sarpi (untraced; known through an engraving by Giovanni Cattini, e.g. London, Courtauld Gallery) also dates from 1610–20. The portrait of Niccolò da Mula (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, on dep. Museo Poldi Pezzoli), still close to Bassano, may date from the 1620s (Pallucchini, 1981). The portrait of Jacopo Pighetti (untraced) dates from 1629, a date deduced from Marco Boschini’s engraving in which the subject’s age is given as 28. There are several portraits from the 1630s, including: Karel Škréta (National Gallery Prague, Kinský Palace), depicting Tinelli’s pupil and datable to between 1630 and 1634 when Škréta was in Venice; the famous full-length portrait of Emilia Papafava Borromeo (Padua, Musei Civici), in which the sitter is exceptionally richly attired and the details of dress and jewellery are highly finished; that of Marcantonio Viario (1637; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum); and the full-length Ludovico Widmann (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art), in which the influence of van Dyck is apparent in the nonchalant elegance of the figure, who leans against ruined architecture and fragments of Classical sculpture. This last is datable to 1638 on the basis of an anonymous engraving (Venice, Bib. Correr, Col. Gherro, vol. III, no. 406), which also gives the age of the subject. Tinelli's small pictures of historical and mythological subjects were also popular. Some of his pictures found their way into the collection of Louis XIII, king of France, who knighted him with the Order of Saint Michael. Domestic afflictions drove him into a state of despondency, causing him to commit suicide.

• Illustration — Portrait of a young Doctor, c. 1636, priv. col. • Portrait of Francesco Querini (c. 1615), Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; • St. Alvise, Bishop of Toulouse, c. 1616, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; • Portrait of Niccolò da Mula (1620s), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; • Portrait of Giulio Strozzi (c. 1630), Uffizi, Florence; • Portrait of an Avogadore (1631), Doge's Palace, Venice; • Portrait of painter Karel Škréta (1635), National Gallery Prague; • Portrait of a young Doctor, c. 1636, priv. col.; • Portraint of Marcantonio Viario (1637), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; • Portrait of Luigi Molin (1637–1638), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; • Portrait of Ludovico Widmann (1637), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; • Portrait of Lucas van Uffelen, (c. 1638), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; • Portrait di Emilia Papafava Borromeo, Museo d'Arte Medioevale e Moderna, Padua; • Portrait of a Man, Uffizi, Vasari Corridor, Florence. • Illustration — Portrait of Ludovico Widmann (1637), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Portrait of a Lady, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna • Illustration — Portrait of Giulio Strozzi (c. 1630), Uffizi, Florence • Illustration — Portrait of Isabella Gonzaga, priv. col. • Illustration — Portrait of Luigi Molin (1637-1638), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice • Illustration — Minerva, Mars and Venus (after Jacopo Tintoretto), National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that tiberio Tinelli is recorded with the occupation painter.