Palma il Giovane

Palma il Giovane was the busiest painter in Venice after the deaths of Titian and Tintoretto, and he combined something of both: Titian’s thick, broken paint surfaces and Tintoretto’s dramatic, twisting figures.

He was born Jacopo Negretti in Venice around 1548 and was the great nephew of Palma Vecchio. He worked with Titian in his last years and completed Titian’s final Pietà. For decades he ran a large studio and filled Venetian churches and the Doge’s Palace with religious scenes, allegories and history paintings, including Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai in the Doge’s Palace. He died in Venice in 1628.

Apollo and Marsyas shows his fluent, energetic handling of myth.