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T I N 
Whether thy hand strike out some free design. 
Where life awakes, and dawns at ev’ry line; 
Or blend in beauteous tint the colour’d mass, 
And from the canvas call the mimic face. Pope, 
To TINT, v. a. To tinge; to colour. Modern. 
No more young Hope tints with her light and bloom 
The darkening scene. Seward. 
TINTA, a province of Peru. See Canes and Canches.— 
The capital of the province has also the same name ; and it 
is the name of several inconsiderable settlements. 
TINTAGELL, a parish of England in Cornwall; 4 miles 
from Camelford. Population 730. 
TINTAMA'R, s. [tintamarre , old French; from rnarre, 
a mattock; “ pour houer la vigne, Gr. /zatppov: c’est de la 
qu’on fait venir tintamarre, a cause du bruit que font quel- 
quefois les vignerons en tintant sur ieur marre.” Menage, 
and Morin.] A confused noise; a hideous outcry.—Squall¬ 
ing hautboys, false-stopped violoncellos, buzzing bassoons,— 
all ill-tuned. The tintamarre, which this kind of squeaking 
and scraping and grumbling produces, I will not pain my 
reader by bringing stronger to his recollection. Mason. 
TINTERN, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire, con¬ 
taining a considerable manufactory for iron-wire. Tintern 
abbey, in this parish, was founded in 1131, for Cistercian 
monks.; and the ruins of its church still exhibit a fine spe¬ 
cimen of its ancient grandeur and noble Gothic architecture; 
5 miles north of Chepstow. 
TINTERN, a village of Ireland, in the county of Wex¬ 
ford ; 85 miles west of Dublin. 
TINTINHULL, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
2 miles south-west of llchester. 
TINTIPAN, a large island of New Granada, off the 
coast of the province of Carthagena. 
TINTO, a river of the south-west of Spain, in the province 
of Seville, which runs into the Atlantic, to the west of the 
Guadalquivir, near the town of Moguer. 
TINTO, a ridge of hills in Scotland, in the county of 
Lanark; about two miles in length. Near the east end of 
the range there is a cairn of a circular form, the top of which 
is elevated 2351 i feet above the level of the sea, and 1740 
feet above the Clyde. 
TINTORETTO (II), the cognomen of a celebrated Vene¬ 
tian painter, whose real name was Giacopo Robusti. He 
was born at Venice, in 1512, the son of a dyer; from whence 
lie acquired the name of II Tintoretto. His natural disposi¬ 
tion towards the art of drawing manifested itself very early, 
and his father had the wisdom to indulge it; and seeing it 
likely to lead to something decisive, caused him to be in¬ 
structed in painting, and finally placed him as a pupil with 
Titian, then in the prime enjoyment of his reputation and 
power. It is a painful thing to relate, and a severe lesson to 
the pride of the most able, that where so much ability, so 
much honour and wealth abode, the mean and degrading pas¬ 
sion of jealousy should have found encouragement Titian, 
the great, the honoured Titian, that man who possessed a 
mind capable of grasping almost all that the art of painting 
required, who was richly and highly honoured, courted, and 
employed, is said (and the truth of the story rests upon too 
sound authority) to have seen, with the corroding pangs of 
jealousy, the early essays of his pupil Tintoretto, and to have 
permitted it to operate so strongly upon him, that he ex¬ 
cluded the dreaded object from his house, about ten days 
after his admission. 
But the aspiring talents of the young painter were not to 
be damped by so mean a measure, though even in the power¬ 
ful hands of Titian. To him dismission from the eye of a 
master was emancipation. He dared to think for himself, 
and boldly aimed at selection in art, and an union unthought 
of till then ; and as Lanzi says, generously aspired at the 
honour of being the founder of a school and style of his 
own, by combining the form of the great Florentine, M. 
Angelo, with the colour of his former master. To maintain 
a. due excitation to the performance of so bold an under- 
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taking, he wrote upon the wall of his study, “ II disegno di 
Michel Angelo e il colorito diTiziano;" and with all the 
ardour of an intrepid mind, endeavoured to perfect the task 
he had assigned himself, by copying whatever pictures of 
Titian he could procure during the day, and drawing by 
night from easts taken from the works of M. Angelo, toge¬ 
ther with many others he procured from ancient basso- 
relievos and statues. It was doubtless by his studies by night 
and the lamp, that he acquired that perfect mastery of chiaro¬ 
scuro, those decided masses of light and shade, which distin¬ 
guish his works, both in their groups and single figures. 
Add to these labours, that he modelled in wax and clay, 
and clothed his figures studiously, arranging them in dif¬ 
ferent lights, and sometimes hanging them from the ceiling, 
to acquire, by drawing from them in that position, the know¬ 
ledge of the sotto in su, then much in use for the adornment 
of ceilings, and in the houses of the grandees. By these 
deep studies, and a perfect knowledge of anatomy, he was 
enabled to exert the exuberant and glowing fancy with which 
nature had blessed him, in the freest and boldest manner; 
and had he always applied his powers with equal intenseness, 
with a careful discrimination of what was due to his own 
honour, there can be no doubt but that he would have left 
a name unrivalled in art. The large picture which lately 
adorned the walls of the Louvre, but is now returned to its 
original station, the Scuola di S. Marco at Venice, is a work 
of this class, which he painted when only 36 years old; and 
another is the Crucifixion, in the Scuola di S. Rocco. The 
former is known by the name of II Servo, and represents the 
miracle of St. Mark descending, and breaking the bonds of a 
slave condemned to death by Turks. Grand but not correct 
in its style of design, astonishing the mind by the intrepid 
boldness of its colour and execution, it displays more com¬ 
plete mastery of the materials of art than is to be found in the 
works of any other painter. If there be any fault in this 
astonishing performance, it is that the subject is lost in the 
splendour of the execution, the spirit in the matter in which 
it is embodied. The same cannot be said of the Crucifixion 
above mentioned, in which the louring, deep, and ominous 
tone preserved through the whole, produces the most perfect 
unity, gives strength of expression to the picture, and over¬ 
whelms the spectator with terror. All seems to he hushed 
in silence round the central figure of the Saviour suspended 
on the cross, with his fainting mother, and a group of male 
and female mourners at his feet; and though many are the 
improprieties of costume and of action, yet all vanish in the 
power which compresses them to a single point, and we do 
not detect them till we recover from the first impression. 
Unhappily for his fame, he was not always so careful in his 
labours; and the impetuosity of his mind, or perhaps the 
feelings of his employers, who were numerous, did not allow 
him sufficient time to do justice to himself; and he permitted 
many pictures to leave his easel, possessing only the free¬ 
dom of colour and execution which peculiarly belonged to 
his pencil. 
Tintoretto was so certain of his execution, that he is said 
by Sandrart to have frequently wrought without a previous 
sketch, or any preparatory outline, finishing as he went on. 
He lived to the great age of eighty-two, and died at Venice in 
1594. 
TINTO, a river of South America; 20 leagues east of Cape 
Honduras. 
T1NTWISTLE, or Tingetwissel, a parish of England, 
in Cheshire; 9 miles north-east-by-east of Stockport. Popu • 
lation 1346. 
TINUL, a small river of the flat country near the river 
Amazons, which runs north, and enters that river opposite 
the settlement of San Joaquin de los Omaguas. 
TINUS, in Botany, a name in Pliny, book 15, chap. 30, 
for what he says is sometimes termed a sort of wild laurel, 
and is distinguished by the blue colour of its berries. This 
description is universally agreed to apply to our Iaurus-.tinus, 
viburnum tinus of Linnasus; which see. 
TIN WALD, a parish of Scotland, in Drumfries-shire, 
which 
