In the meantime he worked also for the Doges' Palace, his first picture, that of the Battle of Lepanto, being destroyed with many others in the fire of 1576, first obtaining him as a reward a sinecure post in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, that central office of German merchants and brokers on the facade of which Giorgione and Titian painted their famous (now obliterated) frescoes.

Small posts here with no obligations were given to public servants, much as we give Civil List pensions.
Tintoretto's life was very methodical, and was divided strictly between painting and domestic affairs, with few outside diversions.

He had settled down in the house which now bears his name and a tablet, close to the church of the Madonna dell'Orto.

His children were eight in number, among whom his favourite was Marietta, his eldest daughter.

He and she were in fact inseparable, Marietta even donning boy's attire in order to be with him at his work on occasions when as a girl it would have been difficult.