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Slideshow: X-ray reveals secrets of Tintoretto's painting

“Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice” at the MFA.

By GREG COOK | March 19, 2009

Jacopo Tintoretto’s painting Nativity, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, has long puzzled scholars because of its odd composition. As the museum reports, people wondered: “Why is only one of the major figures looking directly at the baby Jesus, who should be the center of attention in a nativity? Why does the woman at right have her arms flung out so dramatically, more a gesture of shock or alarm than joy? What is the old man above her looking at?” Could X-rays reveal the answers?
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Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Three's company
The show's American curator, Frederick Ilchman, has snagged an improbable number of pairs and trios from the world's famous (and not so famous) museums.
More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
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Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Three's company
The show's American curator, Frederick Ilchman, has snagged an improbable number of pairs and trios from the world's famous (and not so famous) museums.
More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
Splendor on the screen
The arc of Elia Kazan's professional life has its origins in the Group Theatre, where he was trained as an actor and performed in the original 1930s productions of Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy .
David Hilliard at Carroll and Sons
It's not every day that a guy like me gets to enjoy a photographic investigation of daddy-boy relationships. . . . well, outside of a naughty format.
Song of herself
"Listen, I will go on record saying I love Feist, I love Neko Case. I love that music. But that shit's easy listening for the twentysomethings. It fucking is. It's not hard to listen to any of that stuff."
No translation necessary
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys — named for their home town in southwest Louisiana — play music for dancing.
Photos: The Secrets of Tomb 10A at MFA
Photos of an Ancient Egyptian exhibit on display at the Museum of Fine Arts
Meet the Marlboro Man
They shoot horses, don't they?
Peabody rising
Could the Peabody Essex Museum be the Boston area’s most exciting art museum right now?
Afterglow
The installation is a bit of a shift for Whiteread, who’s best known for making plaster, rubber, resin, or concrete casts of old used mattresses, a staircase, the entire interior of rooms.
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