11 Faustina de’ Vescovi (also known as Episcopi), who came from a distinguished Venetian family. This marriage produced many children, of whom Domenico (b. 1560), Marco (b. 1562), as well as Gierolima, Zuan Battista, Lucrezia, Ottavia, Laura, Altura (also known as Ottavia), and Perina reached adulthood. Jacopo also trained his sons Domenico andMarco as artists, and both worked with Marietta in their father’s workshop. Marietta thus seems to have been born out of wedlock. This could explain why her date of birth is unknown. The literature yields references to 1550,7 1552,8 1554,9 1556,10 and 1560.11 Several clues suggest the earlier dates as the more likely. One is the aforementioned painting in Madonna dell’Orto, in which, according to the Genealogia, Tintoretto had included a portrait of his daughter with her mother (fig. 1). Either of the two prominent women at the bottom of the ornate flight of steps could be considered here – one reclining, back turned Fig. 1 JACOPO ROBUST I , CALLED T INTORET TO The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, 1551–1556 Oil on canvas, 429×480 cm, Venice, Madonna dell’Orto
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