Tiberio Tinelli (1586 – 1639)
• Was an Italian painter.
• Active mainly in his native city of Venice.
• He trained with Giovanni Contarini, a pupil of the late Titian.
• He was well known for his portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice, whom he often painted in historical dress.
• Some of his pictures found their way into the collection of Louis XIII, king of France, who knighted him with the order of Michael.
• He moved later in life in Florence.
• Domestic afflictions drove him into a state of despondency, causing him to commit suicide.
