Tintoretto paints Susanna and the Elders, a version of the old Testament episode, in about 1550, the year that he marries Faustina de Vescovi (or Episcopi?), daughter of a Venetian nobleman who is the guardian grande of the Scuola Grande di San Marco.

She appears to have been a careful homemaker, and one who both would and could have her way with her not too tractable husband.

Faustina is to bear him several children, probably two sons and five daughters.

The mother of Jacopo's daughter Marietta, a portrait painter herself, is probably a German woman, who had had an affair with Jacopo before his marriage to Faustina.