The Drintmakers WORKSHOP

Venetian studio BOTTEGA DEL TINTORETTO conjures the creative spirit of its namesake Italian Renaissance painter, one hand-bound book at a time.

- RACHAEL BURROW RUMMEL

The 15th-century former home of painter Jacopo Robusti in Venice's Cannaregio district. RIGHT: Director and art printing steward Roberto Mazzetto

ONA STILL, HOT DAY IN AUGUST, I'm snaking through Venice in a water taxi, gliding between the moored boats bobbing on its quiet canals. I'm dropped off at the edge of Cannaregio, at the steps of an unassuming rose-colored building with a humble cotton curtain hanging in its doorway. Stepping inside is like an entrée to another time, another world, where artists are quietly engraving, printing, painting, and binding as classical music plays on the radio. I've arrived at Bottega del Tintoretto.