Word: tintoretto
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...political caricatures seethed with outrage, the man himself was gentle--he was happiest in a museum, studying Titian and Tintoretto, or with friends at his Wednesday-night life-drawing class, which he co-hosted for half a century...
VENICE, Italy — Venice presents a visual marathon, hinting at a city that can never hold enough examples of different methods of presentation, decoration, or commemoration. From the Renaissance paintings by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese to the Gothic architecture of the basilicas, from the gaudy Venetian masks that are marketed to tourists to the simple red geranium flowers that bedeck the palazzos of the Grand Canal, one’s eyes are eternally entertained...
...Tickets are available at wine.phantomgourmet.com. 21+. Saturday, May 2, 2 p.m. – 8 p.m., Bayside Expo and Conference Center, $30 online 2. From the Venetian Lagoon to the Bay State: Go see the MFA’s current special exhibition! “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice” gathers an impressive collection from the Most Serene Republic and highlights the drama behind the art and the conservation behind the exhibit. Ongoing, The Museum of Fine Arts, $23 with student ID 3. Are you a member of “Fight Club”? Don?...
...last painting in the Boston show is a very somber self-portrait by the 70-year-old Tintoretto. It was painted around 1588, a dozen years after Titian's death and close to the time of Veronese's (he was abruptly claimed by pneumonia at age 60). The graybeard artist with sunken eyes stares out at us from a deep pool of shadow. He's the last man standing, indisputably now the greatest living artist in Venice. The great game is over - and he looks like he misses...
...eldest of 22 children (his father must have been busy with more than staining wool) and is one of three Olympian daubers of color on canvas whose works fill the superb exhibit of 16th century Venetian painting at the Museum of Fine Arts. This show, “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” on view through August 16, brings together with rare serendipity an embarrassment of stunning paintings on loan from museums around the world. This triumvirate of Venetian painters seems to engage in a pictorial brinksmanship, each work one-upping the last: Titian?...