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TINTORETTO II. 410 TIPPOO SAHIB tensity of his style, that he acquired the nickname of II Furioso. It was admitted by Sebastian del Piombo that Tintoretto could paint as much in two days as he could in as many years. The palaces and churches of Venice were rapidly adorned by him with vivid representations of his- torical, mythological, and scriptural sub- jects, but only a few of his frescoes sur- vive. The only works said to bear his name are : "The Crucifixion," in the Scuola di San Rocco (engraved by Agostino Ca- racci), the "Miracle of the Slave" in the Academy, and the "Marriage of Cana" in the Church of Santa Maria della Salute. His largest work, "Paradise," on the ceil- ing of the library in the Doges' palace, is 84^^ feet by 34, and contains upward of 100 figures. Other famous works are "Belshazzar's Feast," the "Tiburtine Sibyl," "Last Supper," "Worship of the Golden Calf," "Last Judgment," and "Slaughter of the Innocents." About a third of his works are symbolical, and he frequently makes ingenious use of the winged lion of St. Mark. He certainly belongs to the greatest class of painters. Daring and passionate in imagination, Tintoretto sought to vary by dramatic movement the romantic motives of the Venetian school, and brought to perfec- tion the poetry of chiaroscuro with some- thing of Angelo's sublimity. Tintoretto died in Venice, May 31, 1594. His fa- vorite daughter, Marietta, who was an excellent portrait painter, died in 1590, but his son, DoMENico, also a painter, lived till 1637. TINWORTH, GEORGE, an English artist in terra-cotta; born in London, England, Nov. 5, 1843. He was the son of a poor wheelwright, and while work- ing in his father's shop took to wood carving of his own accord. In 1861 he found opportunity to get lessons in an art school at Lambeth, and in 1864 en- tered the Royal Academy schools. He soon began exhibiting figures and groups of figures at the Royal Academy, and in 1867 obtained a permanent appoint- ment in the great Doulton art pottery. The works by which he became famous were mainly terra-cotta panels with groups of figures in high relief illus- trating scenes from sacred history, which happily combine grace, strength, and divinity with originality of design, dra- matic effectiveness, and devout feeling. An important example is the reredos in York Minster, with 28 terra-cotta panels. TIPPECANOE, a river of Indiana, which rises in the N. part of the State, flows W. S. W. and S. 200 miles, and empties into the Wabash 10 miles above Lafayette. It is famous for the battle fought near its mouth, Nov. 7, 1811, in which the Indians, under Tecumseh'3 brother, the prophet, were defeated by General Harrison. TIPPERARY, a county of Ireland, province of Munster, surrounded by King's County, Queen's County, Kilken- ny, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Clare, and Galway; area, 1,659 square miles. It lies in the basin of the Suir, which rises in the N. of the county and forms part of the S. boundary before passing through Waterford to the sea. The sur- face, for the most part level, is diversified by hill ranges, of which the chief are the Galtees (3,015 feet), Knockmeledown (2,150 feet), Slievenaman (2,364 feet), the Devil's Bit (1,600 feet), the Keeper (2,278 feet), and Slievenamuck (1,215 feet). The Shannon and Lough Derg form part of the W. boundary, separating Tipperary from Galway and Claire; and other streams which water it are tha Brosna, Nenagh, and Mulkear. There are many small lakes, and among the more fertile districts are the plain of Ormond and Golden Vale. The prevail- ing rocks are clay, slate, greywacke, sandstone, and limestone; and among the minerals are anthracite, coal, copper, zinc, and lead mixed with silver. The soil, calcareous loam, is in parts singu- larly productive. The crops include po- tatoes, oats, wheat, turnips, and mangel- wurzel. Clonmel is the chief town. There are numerous antiquities, including the Holy Cross Abbey at Cashel, and Cahir Castle. The Mitchellstown caves, on the border of Cork, are of great extent and contain fine stalactite deposits. Pop. about 152,000. TIPPERARY (Irish Gaelic, Tiobrad Arann, "the well of the district of Ara"), a market town in the county of the same name; on the Arra, an affluent of the Suir; 24^^ miles N. W. of Clonmel and 110 S. W. of Dublin. Lying at the base of the Slievenamuck mountains, near the center of the Golden Vale, on the direct road from Clonmel to Limerick, it car- ries on a considerable trade in butter, corn, flour, etc. The daily butter market is said to be next in importance to that of Cork. Tipperary is the headquarters of the Union Agricultural Society, and it has a spacious corn and provision market, in which markets are held on Thursdays and Saturdays. There is a fine parish church, a Gothic Roman Catholic church with a spire 156 feet high, a Presby- terian church, a Methodist chapel, a town hall, etc. Pop. about 6,000. TIPPOO SAHIB, more correctly TiPU Sultan, Sultan of Mysore, and son of